'Continued brutality and violence in West Bengal is shameful and inhuman': Here’s what Amit Shah had to say after BJP worker Dulal Kumar's killing in Purulia

Issuing a statement on the killing of a second BJP worker in three days in West Bengal's Purulia, BJP party president Amit Shah offered his deepest condolences to the bereaved family and decried the what he has called "the continued brutality and violence" in the state.

Taking to Twitter, Amit Shah has issued two posts about the death of BJP OBC Morcha vice-president Dulal Kumar.

"Distressed to know about yet another killing of BJP karyakarta Dulal Kumar in Balrampur, West Bengal. This continued brutality and violence in the land of West Bengal is shameful and inhuman. Mamata Banerjee’s govt has completely failed to maintain law and order in the state."

"I express my deepest condolences to the bereaved family. I along with millions of BJP karyakartas share grief of Dulal Kumar’s family. May God give his family the strength to withstand this irreparable loss. Om Shanti Shanti Shanti."

Twenty-eight-year-old Dulal Kumar was found hanging from an electric tower near his Dabha village in Purulia, having seemingly gone missing on Saturday night. The circumstances of his body being discovered were chillingly similar to how another BJP worker, an 18-year-old Dalit male named Trilochan Mahato, was found just a few days earlier. 

In the case of Mahato's death, two messages had been found -- one scribbled on the back of his white t-shirt and another, in a crumpled piece of paper that had been left near his feet.

Roughly translated, the horrific message read, "This is for doing BJP politics from age 18. Been trying to kill you since the vote. Failed. Today your life ends."

Speaking to Republic TV, BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha had alleged a Trinamool Congress hand behind Dulal Kumar's killing. At that time, the Police had claimed that the death was a suicide. Both the cases were later handed over to the state CID as the Bengal Police cited that there may be a conspiracy. The BJP, as well as the family of Trilochan Mahato have demanded a CBI probe.

Trinamool Congress leader Derek O'Brien, meanwhile, said that his party condemned the despicable killing and that all angles should be probed. He also asked about the roles of the Jharkhand border, the Bajrang Dal, Maoists and the BJP.