A huge team of police officers was quick to quell tensions that erupted with BJP supporters.
Calcutta:
BJP leader Manish Shukla was shot and killed on Sunday night, some 20 km north of Kolkata, when he was speaking with some locals and party workers near a local police station.
The BJP has called for a 12-hour bandh (closure) in the Barrackpore area today, blaming the ruling Trinamool Congress for the murder.
The Trinamool Congress has denied the allegation and attributed the incident to an internal dispute within the BJP.
Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, who condemned the incident in a late-night tweet, summoned the DGP (Director General of Police) and the Raj Bhavan Secretary of the Interior at 10 a.m. M.
Home ACS @MamataOfficial and DGP @WBPolicia They have been summoned at 10 am tomorrow following the worsening situation of law and order that led to the cowardly assassination of Manish Shukla, Titagarh Township Councilor at the political party office.
– Governor of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankhar (@ jdhankhar1) October 4, 2020
According to eyewitness accounts, several men on motorcycles suddenly approached Manish Shukla, a member of the BJP’s Barrackpore organizing district committee and a former councilor, and riddled him with bullets.
He was reportedly shot in the head, chest and back, first rushed to a private hospital in Barrackpore and then to Calcutta; however he died.
A huge team of police officers was quick to quell tensions that erupted when BJP supporters interrupted Barrackpore Police Commissioner Manoj Verma and Additional Commissioner Ajay Thakur, demanding immediate rest from the defendants.
Top BJP leaders who rushed to the scene blamed the Trinamool Congress for the attack and called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday.
BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya described Manish Shukla as “a close associate of BJP Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh” and blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for his death.
“We have no faith in the police. As the murder happened in front of the police station, there has to be some link. There should be a CBI investigation into it. Arjun Singh had previously said that his life and that of his associates were in danger. , He said.
“I’m sorry Mamta Banerjee that you are resorting to such tactics. People will never forgive you.”
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