Maoists kidnap and kill BJP leader in Jharkhand

LOHARDAGA: A local BJP leader was kidnapped and killed by Maoists triggering a protest by party supporters against increasing ultra Left threat to political leaders, police said on Saturday.
  
Lohardaga superintendent of police Subodh Prasad said Mahadev Sahu, BJP's Senah block president and two other residents of Barhigaon village of the area at gun point by a group of armed Maoists to a place under Bhandra police station, about 5 km from here ion Friday.
   
The abductors gunned down Sahu but let off the other two, he said adding a note recovered from the spot branded the 36-year-old leader as a 'police informer'.
   
Condemning the killing, BJP leader Shagnu Bhagat along with party activists put up road blockades on Pawarganj main road disrupting traffic for two hours.
   
The blockade was lifted after the district administration gave Rs 10,000 ex-gratia to the family of the slain leader and assured it would recommend to the government for a job to one of the eligible family members, Prasad said.
    
While Bhagat blamed police inaction for the killing by the Maoists, who he claimed were operating without any fear in Jharkhand, the Leader of the Opposition Arjun Munda condemned
the incident and blamed the administration for the lapse.