BJP youth wing leaders' brawl leave one dead in West Bengal

Brawl among the BJP youth wing leaders on Monday led to the death of the state youth wing vice-president Raju Sarkar. Sarkar died of cardiac arrest following the scuffle.

During a closed door meeting at BJP’s election office in Kolkata’s Hastings, a brawl broke out over a diary which even led to physical fight amongst the leaders.

“Raju asked for a diary from another. The leader refused to give and then a brawl started. Raju left the meeting. After few minutes he returned to the meeting and fell ill,” said the sources.


Raju was rushed to SSKM hospital and after the officials denied admission, he was taken to private hospital Apollo hospital where he was declared brought dead.

West Bengal BJP Chief Dilip Ghosh, who is in Delhi at the moment, said that he had heard of a brawl but wasn’t aware what exactly had happened as he is in New Delhi.

Raju who was a close aide of Trinamool leader Mukul Roy had defected to the saffron camp with Mukul.