Wife of CRPF jawan killed in Pulwama attack is BJP candidate for Bengal bypoll
Hindustan TimesThe wife of a Central Armed Police Force personnel killed in the 2019 Pulwama terror attack has been fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party for the September 5 bypoll at the Dhupguri assembly seat in north Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district. Jagannath Roy, the husband of the BJP nominee Tapasi Roy, was among the 40 CRPF personnel killed in the February 2019 terror attack at Pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir by a suicide bomber of the Jaish-e-Mohammad. TMC state vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar said: “The loss of lives at Pulwama has been projected by the BJP several times for political gains. Bengal BJP’s chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said: “Suspecting the role of the Army and using defamatory language in reference to our security forces is part of the TMC’s culture.