BJP municipality member Kithaganahalli Vasu was hacked to death on Tuesday morning by unidentified assailants. Vasu belonged to the Bommasandra municipality in Bengaluru.

He was on his way for morning walk when miscreants attacked him. The reason for his murder is not known as yet but a tiff over a piece of land is possible.

Vasu's wife is a zilla panchayat member.

"BJP councillor and Dalit leader Srinivas Prasad, popularly known as Kithaganahalli Vasu, was stabbed with sharp weapons around 5 am," Bengaluru rural superintendent of police Vinit Singh said.

On the motive behind the crime, Singh said, "It is too early to comment on it as we are investigating the case."

Reacting to the incident, RSS media coordinator for Karnataka, Rajesh Padmar said the state government should take strong steps to stop such politically-motivated killings.

He also demanded an immediate and an impartial probe into it.

BJP MLA from Malleswaram constituency CN Ashwathnarayan said that irrespective what the reason might be, this murder is condemnable. "It is a complete failure of the law and order," he says adding, "we have repeatedly been seeing an increase in murders, dacoities, sexual assaults on women and the government must stop all this."

KPCC President and Home Minister G Parameshwara while addressing the media said that any murder is a murder and the law will take its own course. He went on to add that it is the duty of the police to investigate any murder without any preconceived ideas and his department will definitely enquire into this particular case and once the investigation results are out, action will be taken with no compromises whatsoever.

(WIth inputs from Nolan Pinto)

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