Hyderabad: BJP worker Kinkar Majhi, who was shot at by a TMC activist in West Bengal's Howrah district, succumbed to injuries at a state-run hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The incident took place in Chandanapara in Bagnan police station area when 52-year-old flower trader Kinkar Majhi was returning home on Saturday night, a police officer said.
TMC worker Paritosh Majhi and some others stopped Kinkar Majhi, who is also his neighbour, and shot at the BJP activist from a close range over an old land dispute, he said.
They fled the spot when locals heard the gunshot and rushed to save Kinkar Majhi, the officer said.
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He was admitted to Uluberia super-speciality hospital, from where he was shifted to a hospital in Kolkata on the eve of 'Maha Saptami'.
The BJP, claiming it was political violence, allegedly ransacked the TMC worker's house, while the police and the ruling party in the state said the incident was a fallout of a land dispute between the two neighbours.
Local BJP leader Anupam Mallick, however, claimed the accused had issued death threats to the saffron party worker.
"The BJP's clout is growing in the area and our worker was shot at to suppress this tide," he said on the day the worker was shot.
TMC's Bagnan MLA Arunava Sen, however, dismissed the allegations and said the incident was a fallout of an old rivalry and does not have any political link.
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