Bengal violence under Trinamool surpassed Left legacy: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The incident invited strong criticism of the TMC government from BJP chief Amit Shah who said the ruling dispensation has “surpassed the violent legacy of the communist rule” in West Bengal.

An unsigned handwritten note in Bengali found near the body of Trilochan Mahato near his home in Balarampur, about 295 km from Kolkata, stated that he was “punished for working for the BJP” during the recent rural polls in the state, a senior district police officer said.

“Because you are involved with the BJP even when you are only 18 years, it has claimed your life. I have been searching for you since the panchayat elections and now you are dead,” the officer said quoting from the note.

The youth had gone to a place barely three km from his village last evening and did not return home. He had called up his brother in the night and said that he was kidnapped and urged to be rescued, he said.