Raipur: Maoists killed a BJP leader accusing him of being a police informer in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district.
According to a statement by the Bijapur police, the incident took place on Tuesday night in Somnapalli village under Farsegarh police station area of the district.
The victim, identified as Kudiyaam Mado who was district vice-president of BJP’s farmers’ unit Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha, was dragged out of his house and strangled to death.
Police have recovered a pamphlet issued by the banned CPI (Maoist)’s Bijapur National Park Area Committee, in which they justified the killing by accusing the 35-year-old Mado of being a police informer.
Local police have taken the body into custody to conduct probe and legal proceedings.
Mahesh Gagda, former minister in Raman Singh’s cabinet and senior BJP leader of Chhattisgarh, confirmed Mado was a party leader of the district.
“A high-level inquiry should be conducted as most of the BJP leaders killed in Bastar are from Bijapur,” said Gagda.
Over 60 people have been killed in Maoist insurgency in the Bastar division so far this year.
Between January 2023 and April 2024, nine BJP leaders were killed in Bastar alone.
