In another instance of growing lawlessness in Bihar, a Lok Janshakti Party leader was shot dead in the Naxal-infested Dumaria block of Gaya on Wednesday.

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Sudesh Paswan, the block president of Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan's party, was canvassing for his wife Maya Kumari, a mukhiya candidate from Kachar panchayat, in the ongoing panchayat election when he was gunned down by unidentified motorcycle-borne criminals at Duaath village. His cousin Sunil Paswan, who sustained injuries in the shootout, succumbed to his injuries after he was rushed to a hospital. The killings, said to have been executed by the Maoists, had spread panic in the area. The murder took place barely a few hours after the Bihar police claimed to have made a major breakthrough in the Siwan journalist Rajdeo Ranjan killing case by arresting five persons, including the alleged main sharpshooter. Another LJP leader Brijnathi Singh was gunned down on the outskirts of Patna earlier this year.

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