KOLKATA: Several thousand activists paraded through a West Bengal town Sunday with the body of a politician whose killing opened a campaign of violence ahead of India’s general election. His party blamed the arch-rival Bharatiya Janata Party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi but its leaders denied any involvement. West Bengal witnessed gruesome political murders around past elections with victims hacked to pieces and some burned alive along with entire slums. While National Crime Bureau data said there were more than 100 political murders in 2016, political experts said the figure is much higher. Kerala, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states in the north are the worst for political murders, the government data shows.

Source: Pakistan Today February 10, 2019 18:22 UTC