The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday protested in Odisha's Khurda town after some unidentified miscreants shot a local BJP leader on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Manguli Jena, BJP's mandal president of Khurda zone-9.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday protested in Odisha's Khurda town after some unidentified miscreants shot a local BJP leader on Sunday.
The deceased has been identified as Manguli Jena, BJP's mandal president of Khurda zone-9, the police said on Monday.
The incident took place on Sunday midnight when Jena바카라 웹사이트was standing near the house of BJPs candidate for Khurda assembly seat, Kalu Charan Khandayat and holding a discussion바카라 웹사이트with workers of the saffron party.
Police said bike-borne miscreants fired four rounds, two of which hit Jena.
He was rushed to Khurda district headquarters hospital바카라 웹사이트where the doctors declared him "brought dead".
The police immediately sealed the town and started바카라 웹사이트an investigation into the incident.
Raids were being conducted at various places in Khurda to apprehend the assailants.
The motive behind the murder was not yet ascertained,바카라 웹사이트police said.
Meanwhile, the district unit of the BJP has called for바카라 웹사이트a Khurda bandh from 8 am to 2 pm on Monday in protest against the killing.
Strongly condemning the killing, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan appealed to the workers and leaders of the바카라 웹사이트saffron party to keep faith in democracy and maintain peace at this time.
"People will give their reply to a bullet through the ballot바카라 웹사이트in the coming election," Pradhan said.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik also condemned바카라 웹사이트the murder of the BJP leader and urged the EC to direct the바카라 웹사이트police to take stringent action against the culprits.
"There is no place of violence in a democracy. I convey my deep condolence to the bereaved family," Patnaik tweeted.바카라 웹사이트BJD candidate for Khurda assembly seat, Jitu Mitra said, "I condemn this incident. This is for the first time in my 40-year long political career that a political leader has been killed in Khurda."
Khurda assembly segment, under Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha바카라 웹사이트seat, will go for polling on April 23.
Assembly elections are being held simultaneously with the parliamentary polls in Odisha.
(PTI)