Three Trinamool leaders killed in 4 days; intra-party feuds suspected

A Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief was killed on Sunday (July 13, 2025) at Sainthia in West Bengal’s Birbhum district. Piyush Ghosh, a zonal president of the TMC in Sainthia, was killed a couple of kilometre from his residence. According to the police, the incident occurred within the early hours of Sunday, when the assailants shot Ghosh on a bike from a point-blank vary.

Tista Ghosh, spouse of the deceased TMC chief, blamed the social gathering’s inside politics for the homicide. A menace had been pasted on their door, asking her husband to not enterprise out of the home, she mentioned. “Politics took his life. I repeatedly begged him to go away politics and the enterprise however he by no means listened. The authorities ought to present a job for my son. How will we survive?” she mentioned.

Piyush Ghosh is the third Trinamool Congress chief to be murdered over the previous three days. Intra-party feuds are suspected in all three deaths.

TMC chief Razzak Khan was killed in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas on Thursday night time. On Sunday, the police arrested Mofazzal Molla in reference to the homicide of Razzak Khan. Mr. Mofazzal Molla is claimed to have been Khan’s shut pal. While TMC chief and Canning Purba MLA Saukat Molla had earlier blamed supporters of the Indian Secular Front for the homicide, Mr. Saukat Molla on Sunday mentioned Mr. Mofazzal Molla was not a frontrunner of the Trinamool Congress.

The spouse of the deceased Razzak Khan mentioned that, hours earlier than his demise, her husband had met Mr. Saukat Molla. Mr. Mofazzal Molla was a pal who used to go to their home sometimes, she mentioned. In truth, Mr. Mofazzal Molla and Mr. Saukat Molla have been seen on the scene of crime collectively, hours after the homicide.

Some locals instructed that “space domination” and native political disputes could have led to the homicide.

Another native TMC chief, Abul Kalam Azad, was allegedly hacked to demise throughout a celebration in Malda’s English Bazar space on Thursday. Azad’s household has alleged {that a} panchayat member dragged him right into a room and killed him. Local TMC supporters have been arrested in reference to the homicide.

Political violence and infighting within the ruling social gathering have develop into a daily phenomenon in West Bengal politics. “Infighting in TMC has reached a degree the place folks within the social gathering are killing one another,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) State president Samik Bhattacharya mentioned, focusing on West Bengal’s ruling social gathering.