Congress appoints murder accused as Kalyan block chief, faces flak

Thane | Wednesday | 13th February, 2019

Summary:

KALYAN: A controversy has erupted in Kalyan as the Congress has appointed a murder accused, Jaydeep Sanap, as the party president of one of the blocks in the locality. Following the incident, the police arrested three people for plotting the murder-Lakhan Ram Avtar Singh Khushwaha, Ravindra Ram Avtar Singh Khuswaha and Sanap. They said that the Congress had inducted a criminal who is an accused in the killing of a Dalit leader. Sanap has been released on bail in the 2016 murder case of Republican Party of India leader Vishal Pagare.Opposition parties in the city objected to the Congress naming Sanap as the party's B block president. "On February 15, 2016, Pagare was brutally attacked and killed by a mob of around 25 people over an argument on mawa price..