From the States : Uttar Pradesh

Aligarh flares up after
BJP leader is shot dead; 2 killed
From Our Correspondent

Mulayam Government in UP has failed to protect the life and property of its citizens. And the latest instance is the shooting down of an Aligarh BJP leader, Shri O.P. Gupta by three assailants on May 29 evening, coming close on the heels of a communal rioting that broke up on Ram Navmi day a month back. Two persons have been killed and nine others injured in a communal flare-up in Aligarh district when violence broke out in the city after a local trader and BJP leader, O.P. Gupta a.k.a. Lala was shot dead.

According to Uttar Pradesh’s principal home secretary, Mr Satish Kumar Agarwal, Mr O.P. Gupta was returning home after closing his confectionery shop in the Dhaniapada locality at around 9 pm on Sunday (May 28) when three assailants came on a motorcycle and fired several rounds at him from close range. Shri Gupta, who received bullet injuries in the head, was rushed to the hospital where he died. The BJP, meanwhile, staged a demonstration in front of the Assembly building in Lucknow on May 29 to protest against the murder of the trader.