Debendra Nayak was the president of Goshala Mandal and BJP, while Muralidhar Chhuria was the former sarpanch. Three hits of the dumper to the vehicle, police said.
Two BJP leaders were killed in the early hours of Sunday in Odisha’s Sambalpur district when a dumper hit their car, police said. The deceased have been identified as Debendra Nayak and Muralidhar Chhuria. Nayak was BJP’s Goshala mandal president, while Chhuria is a former sarpanch. Both of them were close to senior BJP leader Nauri Naik.
The incident occurred around 1.30 am on NH 53 in the Burla police station area. There were six people in the car, including the driver, and they were returning home in Kardola from Bhubaneswar, police said. All six persons were shifted to a local hospital. The doctors pronounced two of them dead. The injured were being treated there.
Among the injured was Suresh Chanda, who alleged, “The vehicle hit our car from behind twice. Assuming someone was making a design to hit our vehicle, the driver turned the car toward the rural road from the highway near Kantapalli Square.”
Still, the dumper chased our vehicle and hit it badly. As a result, the car overturned.” Chanda said he was conscious till the dumper hit their vehicle twice on the highway but lost sense when it hit the third time.
I am sure that someone intentionally caused the accident. It can hit a vehicle once. Why would someone be hit thrice from behind? Asked the injured BJP worker. After visiting the injured, Naik, a former MLA of Rengali, alleged that it was not an accident but that they deliberately collided.
