Row over Cong candidate's death

 

COOCH BEHAR, April 24: Allegations and counter allegations started between the Congress and the CPI-M over the 'mysterious' death of one Gram Panchayat candidate of Congress.

 

The Congress candidate at Mansai-139 booth, Hossain Ali (52) was found dead inside his room at Barokodali-II GP under Baxirhat police station this morning. His son, Md Mobarak Ali suspects that his father was strangled to death with a pillow. The local GP pradhan Subodh Sarkar (CPI-M) was behind the crime, he suspected.

 

District Congress working president Mr Biren Kundu alleged that it was a case of planned murder. The CPI-M committed it to demoralise the Congress supporters prior to the panchayat elections, he alleged. On the otherhand, secretary of Baxirhat Zonal Committee of the CPI-M, Mr Dhananjay Rava said that the Congress is trying to politicise a natural death to earn mileage in the polls. Meanwhile, Baxirhat police sent the body for post-mortem. Police denied commenting whether it was a case of murder or a natural death. []