A local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ratan Dubey was murdered on Saturday in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, according to Bastar Range IG Sundarraj P, news agency ANI reported. When asked about Naxal participation, the IG stated that a team has been deployed to the spot and that anything related to this will be evident after the investigation.
Chhattisgarh | A BJP leader (Ratan Dubey) was murdered today in the insurgency-hit Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh, said Bastar Range IG Sundarraj P.
On being asked about Naxal involvement, the IG said that a team has been dispatched to the location and anything in this…
— ANI MP/CG/Rajasthan (@ANI_MP_CG_RJ) November 4, 2023
The incident occurred in the run-up to the Chhattisgarh Assembly elections, with Mohla-Manpur being one of the twenty seats voting in the first round on November 7.
Earlier in October, unidentified individuals shot and killed a BJP worker in a rural area of the insurgency-hit Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki district near Rajnandgaon.
Birju Taram, 53, was strolling outside his home when two or three persons on a bike approached him and started fire, killing him on the spot, according to police.
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A local BJP leader was assassinated by suspected Naxalites in Bijapur district in June this year, while three local BJP activists were murdered in similar circumstances in Bastar division in February this year—one in Bijapur and two in nearby Narayanpur district.
The BJP has previously expressed concern and urged a high-level investigation into the deaths of three BJP activists in Bijapur and Narayanpur districts in a series of events.
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