BJP Leader Becomes Sarpanch But Assaults Poll Staff In Madhya Pradesh: Here's Why
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Polling staff, including two cops, injured in attack by BJP leader and supporters in Bankabedi village of Madhya Pradesh's Narmadapuram district
A BJP leader attacked the election staff in a village in Madhya Pradesh even after becoming the new sarpanch, because his sister-in-law could not become a panchayat member.
Now this new sarpanch of village Bankabedi in Narmadapuram district, Varun Patel Raghuvanshi -- who is the BJP's block unit president -- is named in a police case along with at least 10 others. Cops are looking for them.
It was just after the election results on Friday that Mr Raghuvanshi first sought to pressure the presiding officer to recount the votes a ward that his sister-in-law, Rani Jaswant Patel, could not win. The officer refused.
