A Trinamool Congress member from Bharatpur in West Bengal was killed on Wednesday night. A group of assailants attacked Sasthi Ghosh with sharp weapons on his way home, the police said.
Family members of the deceased Trinamool Congress member said that there had been a dispute with others in the village over financial issues and Mr. Ghosh had received threats in the past.
Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir, representing Bharatpur, said that he had learnt that those behind the murder were also Trinamool Congress supporters. The MLA added that personal enmity between two groups in the village resulted in the murder and that the party wanted the culprits to be identified and arrested.
Another murder
In another case of murder, the nephew of a Panchayat member was allegedly hacked to death at Madhusudanpur in Kakdwip area of South 24 Parganas district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Rakib Sheikh, nephew of Panchayat member Salauddin Sheikh from the Trinamool Congress.
The Opposition parties in the State criticised the Trinamool Congress over the law and order situation. Former Congress MP and senior party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said Trinamool Congress members were fighting among themselves for limited resources.
Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh claimed that âinternal bickering among Trinamool Congress activists and leaders across West Bengal has reached a stage where they are fighting for turf control and ill-gotten money from crime syndicatesâ.
Earlier this month, three Trinamool Congress leaders were killed in four days in a suspected intra-party feud. Piyush Ghosh, a zonal president of the Trinamool Congress in Sainthia, was killed in the early hours of July 13, and Trinamool Congress members Razzak Khan and Abul Kalam Azad were killed in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas and Englishbazar in Malda respectively on July 10. In most of the cases, the police have arrested leaders associated with the Trinamool Congress for their involvement in the crime.
Published â July 25, 2025 04:13 am IST
