Maoists Kill BJP Leader In Chhattisgarh's Bijapur For Being 'Police Informer', 2nd Such Incident In A Week

Police said Maoists dragged 35-year-old Kudiyaam Mado, district vice president of Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha—the BJP's farmers’ wing—out of his house and strangled him to death.

A BJP leader was killed by Maoists accusing him of being a police informer in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday night, police stated on Wednesday.

According to a report by HT, the Bijapur police informed that the incident occurred in Somnapalli village, which is in the Farsegarh Police Station area of the district. Maoists dragged 35-year-old, Kudiyaam Mado, district vice president of Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha—the BJP's farmers’ wing—out of his house and strangled him to death.

Police also recovered a pamphlet from the banned CPI (Maoist)’s Bijapur National Park Area Committee, which accused Mado of being a police informer and claimed responsibility for the killing. The body of the leader was taken into custody by the local Farsegarh police for further legal process.

The former minister in the cabinet of Raman Singh and senior BJP leader, Mahesh Gagda, confirmed that the deceased was a BJP leader of the district. “A high-level inquiry should be conducted as most of the BJP leaders killed in Bastar are from Bijapur,” said Gagda.

Chhattisgarh Naxals Kill Anganwadi Assistant In Bijapur

Similarly, on December 7, a woman Anganwadi assistant was killed by Naxalites in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh on the suspicion of being a police informer, an official stated.

According to a report by PTI, the official said that the incident occurred on Friday night (December 6) in Timapur village under Basaguda police station limits.

According to initial reports, a group of unidentified Naxalites entered the house of 45-year-old Laxmi Padam in the village and strangled her to death in front of her family. They left her body in the courtyard before fleeing the scene, a police official stated.  

Upon receiving the information, a police team was dispatched to the location, and the body was sent for a post-mortem examination, the official added.

The incidents add to the over 60 people killed in Maoist violence across the Bastar division this year. Notably, nine BJP leaders were killed in separate incidents in the region between January 2023 and April 2024.