Yet another BJP leader shot at in UP, third incident in a week

In yet another attack on BJP, Puneet Singhal, a leader of the party was shot at today in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district. The injured leader was rushed to a hospital in Meerut where he is undergoing treatment, CNN-IBN reported .[caption id=“attachment_1566487” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Under attack. AFP[/caption] This is the third incident where BJP was targeted. It was only on 10 June that district BJP leader Om Veer Singh was shot dead in Muzaffarnagar by unidentified bike-borne assailants, police said. He was vice president of the Panchayat Prakoshth and a retired army officer. Before that Vijay Pandit, a prominent leader of Noida was shot dead in Dadri area. He had earlier aired his apprehensions of being targeted, but the police did not heed his pleas, his supporters said. Traders, meanwhile, held demonstrations and blocked roads in protest of the incident, reported CNN-IBN, after Singhal was shot. With agency inputs