BJP workers found hanging in Howrah, Cooch Behar

Howrah/Cooch Behar: Two BJP workers were found hanging on Saturday in Howrah and Cooch Behar, where polling was held in the fourth phase.
Nanda Naskar was found in a noose in the balcony of his house at Shyamsunder Chak in Bauria, Howrah, in the morning. His family said he had been busy putting up BJP flags till late on Friday. Uluberia police have sent the body for post-mortem.
BJP’s Uluberia East candidate Protyush Mondal visited the bereaved family and said Naskar was an active party worker who had been threatened by the Trinamool Congress. The latter has denied the allegation.
BJP worker Amar Das, who went missing on Friday evening, was found hanging in a bamboo grove in Cooch Behar’s Patlakhawa in the afternoon. The saffron party blamed the Trinamool for the alleged murder. The TMC denied any involvement, stating the BJP had levelled the same allegation when its worker died by suicide recently in Dinhata.