Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Manoj Thackeray, who had gone for morning walk, found dead
The Police Found Thackeray’s Blood-stained Body With His Head Crushed In A Field. The Stone Used To Kill Thackeray Was Also Found Near His Body.
Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Manoj Thackeray, who had gone for a morning walk on Sunday, was found dead in Warla police station limits. The police found Thackeray’s blood-stained body with his head crushed in a field. The stone used to kill Thackeray was also found near his body. The police have sent the body for post-mortem and registered a case of murder against unknown persons. The Police have also constituted a team to investigate the case.
This is was the second murder of a Madhya Pradesh BJP leader in less than a week. Earlier on Thursday, BJP leader and Mandsaur Municipal Corporation chairman Prahlad Bandhwar was shot at point-blank range in front of the district cooperative bank.
The incident had taken place at around 7 pm when bike-borne attackers stopped in front of Bandhwar who was standing outside the bank building and shot at him at point-blank range. The BJP leader was rushed to hospital but succumbed to the bullet injuries.
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Following the incident, scores of BJP leaders gathered outside the hospital. A police investigation is still underway in the case and the bike used by the attackers have been recovered. However, the killers of Bandhwar were still at large.
Reacting to the party leader’s killing, former state cabinet minister and senior BJP leader Kailash Chawala termed the incident heinous crime and demanded immediate arrest of the perpetrators.
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