Chennai: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday called for a statewide bandh in Tamil Nadu after the party state unit General Secretary V Ramesh was murdered on Friday night. The BJP leader was hacked to death by unidentified assailants near his house in Salem, police said. The 52-year-old Ramesh alias Auditor Ramesh was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and he died on the spot, they said.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on Sunday ordered the formation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the brutal murder of the BJP leader.
The identity of the assailants and the motive for the attack were under investigation, police had added. Ramesh is the second senior party functionary in Tamil Nadu to be murdered in the last nine months.
Earlier, BJP state medical wing secretary Dr V Aravind was killed in front of his clinic in Vellore by a gang in October, 2012.
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