Patna: A contestant of Mukhiya Sonu Kumar Rai from the District Suggestion was shot and seriously injured in the Taraiya police station on Wednesday night.
Rai rushed to the primary health center (PHC) in Taraiya where he was referred to the conscious Chhapra Hospital.
His condition was declared critical.
The victim’s sister, Putul Devi, told police that two young men riding a motorcycle pumped two bullets when Rai returned home after campaigning.
He was in Fray from Madhopur Panchayat in the district suggestion.
Santosh Kumar’s suggestion directed an investigative officer to catch the earliest culprit.
“The defendant will soon be placed behind the bar,” he told reporters at Chhapra after the incident.
The election in Madhopur Panchayat under Taraiya blocks in the district is scheduled to be held on October 24.
The incident has triggered tensions between two rival groups.
Incidentally, this is not a case of isolated attacks on the candidates who are different under the institution of Pancayati Raj in the state.
The choice of Panchayat was detained in eleven phases.
On Wednesday, close relatives were killed under the Area of ​​the Marriage Police Station in the Muzaffarpur district.
His body recovered from the place close to the polling booth.
Sister-in-law of the deceased, Jayanti Devi is Mukhiya sitting from Rajwara Bhagwan Panchayat.
Her husband Shivnath Prasad Yadav described the incident as a fight for political competition.
On Sunday, Kanhaiya Sharma, close relatives with Sitting Mukhiya Khajuri Panchayat, Ruby Sharma, received stab wounds in her attack close to Pakri village in the district suggestion on Sunday.
Incidents of attacks both in their candidates or relatives during the election of Panchayat have risen in the state.
One Ravindra Kumar Singh, a cousin sitting Mukhiya from Raspur Patasia Panchayat, Prince Singh, survived a murder attack in Sultanpur Village under the Mohiuddin Nagar police station in the Samastipur district last week.
Attacks that often occur in contestants or their relatives have set alarm bells ringing in state police headquarters.