In an apparent encore of previous such instances where saffron men were found hanging from trees, another local level BJP leader from Bankura was on Wednesday hanged to death from a tree near his house.
His kin and local BJP men accused the TMC for the crime.
The body of Subhadeep Mishra alias Deepu Mishra, was found hanging from a tree in Nidhirampur village. He had contested a fiercely contested panchayat election earlier this year. Accusing the TMC for his “murder” the BJP workers demanded a CBI investigation into the matter.
The TMC men however said that Dipu had a love angle in the matter as he had an affair with a local woman.
While the locals protested against the police demanding an impartial investigation in a post on X handle State Opposition Suvendu Adhikari said, “TMC goons have murdered Subhadeep Mishra and hung his body from a tree with his hands tied” because they were not happy with his increasing popularity in the area. The police were looking into all angles, the officials said.
The BJP leadership claimed that at least a dozen of their supporters had been murdered by hanging in the past couple of years. “Ever since the end of the 2021 Assembly elections they have been killing our men by hanging … similar incidents happened in Purulia, Raiganj, Malda and other places and have to come to an end,” said a local BJP leader.