BJP leader shot dead in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas; Governor Jagdeep Dhankar summons Mamata Banerjee, Home Secretary
KOLKATA: An area Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Manish Shukla was shot lifeless by unidentified miscreants on Sunday (October 5) night time close to Titagarh in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal.
The incident came about on BT Road, barely few metres away from the native police station. Police sources mentioned Shukla was shot a number of occasions within the again and higher torso. He was instantly rushed to a personal hospital on the EM Bypass the place he was declared introduced lifeless by docs.
According to eyewitnesses, the assailants got here on bikes and their faces have been lined with masks and helmets. Two different BJP staff additionally sustained bullet accidents throughout the assault as they tried to avoid wasting Shukla.
#Breaking: BJP chief Manish Shukla shot lifeless by miscreants at Titagarh, Barrackpore right now night whereas he was coming into the occasion workplace. BJP calls a 12-hour bandh in Barrackpore tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ENZ5ZRAdw7
— Pooja Mehta (@pooja_news) October 4, 2020
It is to be famous that the West Bengal unit of BJP has already known as for a dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Barrackpore space on Monday (Oct 5) in protest towards the homicide.
A central staff of the BJP, comprising common secretary Sanjay Singh, MPs Arjun Singh, Saumitra Khan, Jagannath Sarkar and Shanku Deb Panda will go to Shukla’s residence on Monday, IANS quoted sources as saying.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar has additionally summoned CM Mamata Banerjee and state police over the deteriorating regulation and order state of affairs within the state. “ACS Home @MamataOfficial and DGP @WBPolice have been summoned at 10 am tomorrow in the wake of worsening law and order situation leading to dastardly killing of Manish Shukla, Councillor, Titagarh Municipality in political party office,” the Governor tweeted at 11.40 p.m. on Sunday.
“We demand a CBI probe into the role of the police. Arjun Singh’s life is also in danger. Mamata Banerjee cannot rule the state with terror,” BJP nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya mentioned.
A well-liked public determine in Barrackpore, Shukla had defected from the Trinamool Congress two years in the past. He was identified to be a detailed affiliate with Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh and had later joined the saffron brigade within the district.
BJP`s Barrackpore Lok Sabha MP Arjun Singh had additionally defected from the Trinamool Congress in 2018.
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