BJP worker killed in Nadia district of West Bengal

A 23-year-old BJP worker has been shot dead in Nadia district, police said on Saturday. The incident happened at Chakdaha town around 10 pm on Friday, a police officer said.

Santu Ghosh (23), a resident of Tapaban area in Chakdaha town was shot at from a close range after he went out of his house following a phone call, he said.

He was taken to Chakdaha State General Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, he added. As a result, BJP leaders and workers staged a road blockade on National Highway 34, the police officer said.

They blocked railway tracks at various places in Nadiadistrict on Saturday to protest against the killing of their party worker, he said.

An investigation has been initiated, the police officer said. The police recovered the deceased person's mobile phone and detained two persons for interrogation.

Santu Ghosh had switched to the BJP from the Trinamool Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, sources said.

"The Trinamool Congress is behind the incident," the General Secretary of Nadia BJP Committee, Tarak Sarkar, said.

The TMC leaders denied the allegation.

Central forces have been deployed in the area to maintain law and order, police said.

Read: A Congress Leader Has Been Arrested In The Surendra Singh Murder Case In Amethi, Tweets BJP Leader Rakesh Singh On Killing Of Smriti Irani's Close Aide

Earlier, in the first incident of post-poll violence in Uttar Pradesh, a close aide of newly-elected Amethi MP Smriti Irani was shot dead by two unidentified men, with police lodging an FIR against five persons and not ruling out the possibility of it being a "political murder".

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Smriti Irani asked party workers to exercise restraint, even as she targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi over his "take-care-of-Amethi-with-love" remark, saying she had got the message "loud and clear".

A day after, a senior BJP leader tweeted that a Congress leader has been arrested by the police. 

Rakesh Singh, the state president of the Madhya Pradesh BJP wrote on Twitter:

"In the case of BJP politician Surendra Singh's murder in Amethi, the Police has arrested a Congress leader. Has the Congress been so badly shaken by its president Rahul Gandhi's loss that it has fallen to killing BJP leaders? Was this what you meant by NYAY?"