Duo walks into TMC office, shoots at councillor

Kolkata | Tuesday | 19th February, 2019

Summary:

He was talking to his party workers at the Chitrigunj party office. KOLKATA: Two armed men walked into a Trinamool Congress party office in Budge Budge on Sunday evening and shot at a 33-year-old councillor at pointblank range. Mithun Thikadar, councillor of Ward 20 of the Budge Budge Municipality, has been admitted to CMRI with two bullet wounds — one below his chest and the other in his abdomen. He had told police and the Budge Budge Municipality vice-chairman, Gautam Dasgupta, two names, ostensibly that of his attackers.Dasgupta said, “He did mention two names. Last October, his own party workers had implicated him in an attempt-tomurder FIR..