Within a month after a BJP MLA suffered a "mysterious" death by hanging at Hemtabad in North Dinajpur another BJP worker, a booth president from Ramnagar area in East Midnapore was found hanging from a tree, near his house.

 The 44-year-old party Purnachandra Das was found hanging from a tree late on Wednesday evening said local BJP leadership adding he was under constant pressure from the Trinamool Congress to leave the saffron outfit and join the State ruling party.

“His body was found hanging from a branch of a mango tree near” even as his feet touched the ground, Pabitra Patra a local BJP man alleged saying he had refused to join the TMC which was why “he has been murdered by them.” The body had been sent for postmortem and reports were awaited, sources said. The TMC however refuted such claims.

A local police officer said “all angles are being probed,” adding “there was a long-standing dispute over a road going by the house of the victim.... we will look into that angle also.”

“There was a feud going on with our neighbours. He went out today to attend a meeting which was scheduled around 4 pm to find a solution to the problem. Around 3 pm his body was found hanging from a tree a few hundred metres away from the house,” said Subimal Das, the victim’s brother.

The latest incident comes within a month of the death of BJP’s MLA from Hemtabad, Debendra Nath Roy who was found hanging under mysterious conditions outside a shop about a mile away from his house. An investigation is on in that case too. The BJP has been accusing the TMC of “resorting to politics of annihilation.” A couple of BJP workers died in a similar fashion in Purulia last year.

“The TMC has unleashed a reign of terror and the police are a party to it. We are waiting for the postmortem results to come after which we will take the issue,” said State BJP leadership warning the “police officers who are today creating the mischief will have to pay dearly tomorrow when we come to power.”