BJP leader's body found inside party office in West Bengal, woman arrested
Kolkata, Nov 9: The body of a BJP leader was found inside the party office at Usthi in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, a police officer said on Saturday.
The deceased, Prithviraj Naskar, used to handle the social media account of the party in the district.
The BJP pointed an accusing finger at the TMC, while the police, after arresting a woman in connection with the killing, said the reason for the murder could be personal.
Naskar’s blood-soaked body was discovered at the party office on Friday night. His family members said he had been missing since November 5.
A senior police officer said the arrested woman confessed to having hit the deceased with sharp weapons resulting in his death.
"We are exploring the angle of the deceased having been involved in a relationship and any quarrel with the arrested person," he told reporters.
The officer said a police team broke open the front door and a collapsible gate locked from inside of the party office before finding the body. The suspected assailant must have escaped through a rear door.
Following a preliminary investigation and tracking of mobile phones, the woman was picked up from a nearby locality and during interrogation, she confessed that she committed the crime, the officer said.
It was being investigated if she was aided and abetted by anyone else, he said.
The BJP and TMC were engaged in a war of words following the murder.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar told reporters that local TMC activists were behind the murder of Naskar as they wanted to frighten the saffron party's supporters in the area.
In a post on X, Majumdar said, “Our fight will continue until justice is served and the killers of martyr Prithviraj brought to light. BJP remains resolute in ending the bloodthirsty and oppressive rule of CM Mamata Banerjee in Bengal.”
The BJP state unit alleged in another X post that the party’s district social media convenor was abducted, tortured and murdered by TMC goons.
“The police ignored his family’s desperate pleas for help,” it claimed.
Senior TMC leader and former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh claimed that the BJP knows the exact reason behind Naskar’s death but peddles falsehoods implicating the TMC.
Ghosh claimed in an X post that there are reports about the deceased having personal enmity with more than one person.
The injury in some parts of his body showed animosity and contempt of the assailant towards the man, the TMC leader claimed, expressing hope that the investigation would cover all these angles.
Meanwhile, Naskar's father claimed that his son had earned the wrath of some local TMC activists and the police after putting up placards demanding justice for the R G Kar hospital victim during the recent Durga Puja festival in the area.
"My son was warned of dire consequences by local TMC leaders for organising protests on the R G Kar issue during the festive season," the father said.
পশ্চিমবঙ্গকে রক্ষার তাগিদে দুর্বৃত্তদের বিরুদ্ধে লড়াইয়ে আবার শহীদ হলেন ভারতীয় জনতা পার্টির একজন সক্রিয় সৈনিক। তিনদিন নিখোঁজ থাকার পর আজ মথুরাপুর সাংগঠনিক জেলার সোশ্যাল মিডিয়া কনভেনর পৃথ্বীরাজ নস্করের নিথর দেহ উদ্ধার হয়েছে মন্দিরবাজারের দলীয় কার্যালয়ের ভিতর থেকে। কয়েকদিন… pic.twitter.com/9usI7au7WU
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Maharashtra Cong chief Nana Patole scrapes through in Sakoli, wins by 208 votes
Mumbai, Nov 23: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole survived a scare from his nearest BJP rival in the Sakoli assembly constituency but managed to win the tight contest by a narrow margin of 208 votes.
Patole, the incumbent Congress MLA from Sakoli, polled 96,795 votes, while his challenger from BJP, Avinash Brahmankar, came tantalisingly close to bagging 96,587 votes.
Independent nominee Somadatta Karanjekar was a distant third, bagging 18,309 votes.
While Patole managed to save the face with the thin margin, the Congress unit led by him and the Maha Vikas Aghadi were routed by the BJP-led Mahayuti in the one-sided contest.
