A BJP functionary was shot at in Bengal on Wednesday morning, the day after chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar assured a violence-free and intimidation-free election in the state. Two bike-borne assailants fired at Trilokeswar Dhali, 66, at a spot between the bus stands at Sridham and Gangasagar in South 24-Parganas’ Sagar, around 119 km south of Kolkata. According to BJP sources Dhali, a former secretary of the party’s Mathurapur unit, is among probable candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls. In the last few years leaders and workers from the SC and ST communities have been killed in Bengal,” Bhattacharya said. On Tuesday, addressing the media after his two-day visit to Bengal, CEC Gyanesh Kumar had said the commission’s priority was to hold polls in Bengal without violence and intimidation.

Source: The Telegraph March 11, 2026 12:45 UTC