Maoists carried out a blast at the farmhouse of BJP MP Vikram Usendi with Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Chhattisgarh’s restive Kanker district, ahead of Chief Minister Raman Singh’s visit to the area on Wednesday, police said.
There was no report of any casualty as the farmhouse was empty at the time of the attack that took place late last night, police said.
Two rooms of the farmhouse, belonging to BJP’s lok Sabha member Vikram Usendi, were damaged in the blast, they said.
As per preliminary information, a group of Naxals late last night stormed the farmhouse in Bondanar village, a senior police official said.
Notably, Bondanar is the native village of Vikram Usendi, who represents Kanker constituency in the lok Sabha. The ultras threatened the watchman at the site to leave the place and then targetted the farmhouse with IEDs in which two rooms were damaged, the police official said.
After the blast, the rebels fled the spot, he said.
On getting information, a police team rushed to the spot and a search operation was launched in the region to trace the ultras, the official said. Security forces have intensified patrolling in the region.