BJP worker shot dead in Chhattisgarh, Maoist hand suspected

Credit: IndiaTimes- Published on October 21, 2023
A tribal BJP worker was shot by three bike-borne men in Chhattisgarh’s Maoist-infested Bastar region on Friday. Birju Taram, 53, was the sixth BJP member to be killed this year in the Congress-governed state. Hours before he was shot, Taram had attended a rally of former CM Raman Singh. ​​Amid suspicions of a Maoist hand in...

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