Sending out a chilling reminder to the security forces ‘unidentified’ terrorists Thursday carried out yet another bloodiest attack on grass root Panchayat workers in which one BJP sarpanch was killed in Vessu village of Qazikund block in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district.
Police identified the slain BJP sarpanch as Sajad Ahmad Khanday.
According to ground reports, “Sajjad Ahmad was camping in a secured migrant camp in the area for the past several days. Early Thursday he stepped out of the camp and was 20 meters short of his home when ‘unidentified’ terrorists fired upon him”. “Bleeding profusely he was rushed to the nearby hospital where doctors declared him brought dead”, official sources said.
This is the second attack on a BJP worker in the last 48 hours in the region.
Earlier, BJP Panch Arif Ahmad was critically wounded after terrorists fired at him in Akhran Qazigund on the evening of August 4. Since June 2020 this is the fourth major terror attack on Panchayat workers in Kashmir valley.
Last month, former BJP district president Waseem Bari, his father and brother were killed inside their shop after terrorists fired on them from close range in Bandipora. Bari had a 10-member police security and all of them were suspended and arrested because they were not with him when he was attacked.
On June 8, Congress sarpanch Ajay Kumar Pandita was killed outside his house at Lokbhawan in Anantnag.
Meanwhile, fearing for their lives three more BJP Workers of Kokernag constituency of Naropora Watnard Village Thursday resigned from basic membership of BJP party. These workers were identified as Shabir Ahmad Khan S/o Gh Rasool Khan, Reyaz Ahmad Rather S/o Ab Aziz Rather, Ab Khaliq Sheikh S/o Mohd Subhan Sheikh.