BJP leader shot dead in Ghaziabad

New Delhi: A local BJP leader was shot dead and his friend injured when unidentified persons opened fire at them in broad daylight on Saturday in Ghaziabad’s Khora Colony. The police said that Gajendra Bhati and his friend Balbir Singh Chouhan were on their motorcycle when the assailants waylaid them and opened fire at them. 

Panic prevailed in the area after the broad daylight murder of the BJP leader in Khora Colony. Soon, the police was informed and the two were rushed to a private hospital in neighbouring Noida where doctors pronounced Bhati dead on arrival. 

Chouhan, who was critically injured, is undergoing treatment in the hospital, the police said.

The BJP leader’s death comes just two days after Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister Yogi Adityanath reviewed the law and order situation in the city. 

On receiving information about the incident, Bhati’s supporters reached the hospital in large number. However, with the heavy presence of police personnel at the hospital no  untoward incident was reported. An investigation is underway in the matter, he added.