Ranchi: District President of BJP’s Scheduled Caste Cell (Rural) Jitram Munda was shot dead by criminals in Palu village. Ormanjhi Late Wednesday evening in the police station area. BJP worker Raj Kishore Sahu got injured in this incident.
Sources said Munda was in a hotel complex with his party workers after burning the effigy of Mandar MLA and Congress working president Bandhu Tirkey when two motorcycle-borne assailants fired several shots at him. Munda was taken to the nearby Medanta Hospital where he died. The injured Sahu is being treated at a local hospital.
Police including Rural SP Naushad Alam reached the spot and checked the closed circuit television footage. Ranchi SSP Surendra Jha said, “Prima facie it seems that personal rivalry may be behind this. the killing. We have launched an operation to nab the culprits.”
Several BJP leaders including Union Minister Arjun Munda, former Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth have condemned the incident.
Sources said Munda was in a hotel complex with his party workers after burning the effigy of Mandar MLA and Congress working president Bandhu Tirkey when two motorcycle-borne assailants fired several shots at him. Munda was taken to the nearby Medanta Hospital where he died. The injured Sahu is being treated at a local hospital.
Police including Rural SP Naushad Alam reached the spot and checked the closed circuit television footage. Ranchi SSP Surendra Jha said, “Prima facie it seems that personal rivalry may be behind this. the killing. We have launched an operation to nab the culprits.”
Several BJP leaders including Union Minister Arjun Munda, former Chief Minister Raghubar Das and Ranchi MP Sanjay Seth have condemned the incident.
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