Police constable shot dead by suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh
Raipur (PTI): A police constable was shot dead by suspected Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Thursday, an official said.
The incident took place at around 4.30 am in Marikodri village under Mardoom police station limits, located around 300 km from state capital Raipur, he said.
Constable Nevru Benjam, posted at Rekha Ghati police camp in the same area, had gone to the village along with his family to attend a social function, the official said.
Some unidentified persons fired at him when he was at the function venue. The constable died on the spot, he said.
The assailants immediately fled into a dense forest, the official said.
Prima facie, the incident seems to be the handiwork of Maoists, but an investigation is underway into it, he said.
After being alerted, a police team reached the spot. Search was on for the assailants, he added.
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Will of people supreme, says Mahua Moitra after BJP's landslide victory in Bengal
Kolkata (PTI): A day after the Trinamool Congress faced a drubbing by the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, TMC MP Mohua Moitra on Tuesday said her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme.
She also said that the party will continue the fight for a “secular country”.
In a post on X, Moitra said, “The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP, then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that.”
The BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule.
"We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party," Moitra said.
She said the TMC will continue to stand and fight for a secular country where the constitution, and "not brute majoritarianism, is the last word”.
