Yet another BJP worker found hanging from a tree near his house before attending a Kangaroo court

“But he was not willing to do so. Yesterday a salishi sabha or Kangaroo court was scheduled to be held in the house of the local TMC leader. They called him out from the house for attending the meeting. Before the meeting, one Badal Das and others killed him. Later in the evening, he was found hanging. We want the truth to come out,” a member of his family said.          

       

   Biswabrata Goswami

   Hummingbird News

MIDNAPORE, 30 JULY: Yet in another gruesome incident, a BJP worker was found hanging from a mango tree near his house at Konchuri village of Haldia-II gram panchayat area under Ramnagar police station limits in East Midnapore on Wednesday.

Police official said the body of Purnachandra Das (44) was found hanging from a mango tree near his house yesterday evening and his body has been sent to the Contai state general hospital for autopsy.

The family members of Das claimed that local Trinamul Congress leaders had been putting pressure on him for the past few days to join their party.

“But he was not willing to do so. Yesterday a salishi sabha or Kangaroo court was scheduled to be held in the house of the local TMC leader. They called him out from the house for attending the meeting. Before the meeting, one Badal Das and others killed him. Later in the evening, he was found hanging. We want the truth to come out,” a member of his family said.

Anup Chakraborty, BJP’s Contai district president alleged Das was killed by the TMC backed goons as he refused to join TMC.

“He was an active BJP worker and he was the party’s booth president of 41 number Arjuni booth. For the last few months, the TMC workers had threatened him on dire consequences and asked him to join the TMC,” said Mr Chakraborty.

Trinamul Congress MLA from Ramnagar, Akhil Giri, however, rubbished the allegation as “completely baseless and politically motivated”, and said a police investigation would bring out the truth.

Earlier this month, a senior BJP leader and MLA, Debendra Nath Ray, was found dead under mysterious circumstances near his house in North Dinajpur district in north Bengal.

Ray was found hanging from a ceiling, outside a closed shop, near his home in the Hemtabad area of the district, police said.

His family and the party alleged that it was a “cold-blooded murder by TMC”.