Kolkata

A BJP worker was found dead under mysterious circumstances in Kolkata on Friday morning, hours before Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to the city.

The BJP unit in West Bengal alleged that deceased Arjun Chowrasia, 27, who was Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Mondal Vice-President, North Kolkata was brutally slaughtered and hanged.

This (BJYM worker's murder) is a pre-planned strategy to disturb and threaten our workers. Our worker Abhijit was killed on May 2 last year and 60 murders took place since then. Nobody has been punished, no chargesheet has been filed...It can't be solved without CBI," BJP Vice-President Dilip Ghosh said.

Following Chowrasia’s mysterious death, Amit Shah cancelled all welcome events planned for him in the city. Shah is likely to visit the deceased worker's residence at Chitpur straight from the airport.

Shah, who arrived in West Bengal on Thursday, was on  his first visit to the state after the BJP lost the State Assembly polls in 2021.