Surendra Singh, former village head of Baraulia village and a close aide of BJP leader Smriti Irani, was shot dead by unidentified assailants at his residence in the wee hours of Sunday.
Amethi SP said, “He was shot around 3 am. We’ve taken a few suspects into custody. Investigation on. It can be due to an old dispute or a political dispute.”
Amethi: Surendra Singh, ex-village head of Baraulia, was shot dead by unidentified assailants at his residence, last night. Amethi SP says, “He was shot around 3 AM. We’ve taken a few suspects into custody. Investigation on. It can be due to an old dispute or a political dispute” pic.twitter.com/VYPy9jYDCR
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Locals claim that Surendra Singh was considered close to Irani and he was involved in the distribution of footwear, due to which which the Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had accused Smriti Irani of distributing shoes to the residents in order to insult Rahul Gandhi.
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Smriti Irani on Friday won the Amethi parliamentary seat with a total of 4,67,598 votes, overtaking Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with a margin of 55,120 votes.