Panchayat Congress candidate arrested in Trinamool leader’s murder case
Kolkata (IANS) | Police on Friday arrested two people, including the Congress candidate for the West Bengal panchayat polls, in connection with the murder of Trinamool Congress’s Adra city president Dhananjay Choubey in Purulia district. Let us tell you that when Choubey was in the party office on Thursday evening, he was shot from close range. The two arrested persons have been identified as Arshad Hussain and N.D. Has happened in the form of Jamal. Hussain is contesting as a Congress candidate in the state panchayat elections to be held on July 8.
State Congress leader and Calcutta High Court lawyer Kaustav Bagchi claimed that the arrest was a conspiracy hatched by the district police in connection with the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Bagchi said, Congress is the main rival of Trinamool Congress in Purulia. Also, infighting among the state’s ruling party leaders is quite common in the district. We are sure that Thursday’s murder was the result of the same conspiracy. Now a Congress candidate and a party worker have been framed to cover it up.
However, the district leadership of the Trinamool Congress has denied such allegations and claimed that Congress leaders and workers were from the very beginning trying to disrupt the peaceful polling process in Purulia district, which resulted in Choubey’s murder.
Meanwhile, district Trinamool Congress workers have been agitating in various parts of Purulia district since Friday morning to protest against Choubey’s killing.
He claimed that the road would remain blocked indefinitely until all those involved in the murder were caught and appropriate action was taken.
At around 8.30 pm on Thursday, when Choubey was sitting at the party office with his colleagues, three unidentified miscreants arrived there on a motorcycle and shot Choubey at close range.
His bodyguard Shekhar Das was also injured in this incident. Please tell that in a hurry, Choubey was admitted to a local hospital in critical condition, where he died. His bodyguard is being treated in the same hospital.
On Thursday afternoon, Governor C.V. Anand Bose indirectly blamed the West Bengal State Election Commission for the bloodshed in the rural civic body elections.
–IANS
