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Kolkata: A 71-year-old Muslim man, Sheikh Shah Alam, died after being assaulted by BJP supporters in West Bengal\u2019s Hooghly district, with his family demanding immediate arrests.<\/p>\n
According to Kashmir Media Service, the attack took place in Kelepara village, Purshura, Hooghly. Family members said around a dozen BJP workers gathered outside Alam\u2019s house, called him out, and beat him with bamboo sticks, bricks and iron rods after accusing him of being a Trinamool Congress supporter. His wife Marjina Begum and other women were also assaulted when they tried to intervene.<\/p>\n
Alam, who worked at a hotel in Champadanga and had been mostly homebound after a road accident, collapsed from severe injuries and was declared dead at Arambagh Medical College and Hospital.<\/p>\n
Family members denied any active political association. \u201cMy father-in-law never did politics. He did not take any advantage from any party.<\/p>\n
Yet the BJP goons beat him to death. We want strict punishment for the accused,\u201d relative Reshma Khatun told the media. His son Sheikh Rafiqul Islam said, \u201cWe are not associated with any party. Yet why did this happen to us?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Trinamool Congress condemned the killing, calling it \u201cBJP Bengal\u2019s politics of hatred and violence\u201d and said \u201can elderly man beaten to death, women shoved aside, terror unleashed inside a home \u2014 this is the grim reality of BJP\u2019s model of governance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kolkata: A 71-year-old Muslim man, Sheikh Shah Alam, died after being assaulted by BJP supporters in West Bengal\u2019s Hooghly district, with his family demanding immediate arrests. According to Kashmir Media Service, the attack took place in Kelepara village, Purshura, Hooghly. Family members said around a dozen BJP workers gathered outside Alam\u2019s house, called him out, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t