A Congress councillor from Jhalda Municipality, Tapan Kandu, and TMC councilor from Panihati Municipality, Anupam Dutta, were shot to death in separate incidents on Sunday.
Two councillors in West Bengal were shot to death in two separate incidents on Sunday. (Representational pic)
Congress councillor Tapan Kandu from Jhalda Municipality in West Bengal, who had sustained a bullet injury, succumbed to his injury on Sunday.
Congress district president Nepal Mahato confirmed the news. The party called for a 24-hour bandh in Purulia district on Tuesday against the murder of the councillor.
While, a TMC councilor in Panihati Municipality, Anupam Dutta, was shot to death. Dutta was a councilor of ward number 8 of Panihati in North 24 Parganas district.
He was shot in his head while returning home on Sunday evening. He was first taken to Sagore Dutta Medical College of Medicine in Kamarhati and then shifted to a private nursing home — Zenith Super Speciality hospital in Belgharia, where he was declared brought dead.