By IANS,
Raipur : Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Bastar MP Baliram Kashyap Wednesday escaped a landmine attack triggered by banned terror outfit the Communist Party of India-Maoist in Chhattisgarh, the police said.
“Insurgents exploded a landmine to hit Kashyap’s vehicle in a forested stretch of Narayanpur district but he escaped unhurt while the blast hit a jeep following his convoy,” Girdhari Nayak, state’s chief of the anti-Maoist operations, told IANS.
He added that one policeman and an assistant sub-inspector were injured in the attack while the rear portion of the jeep was severely damaged.
The injured have been rushed to a government hospital at Narayanpur town.
Narayanpur is one of the five districts of state’s southern mineral-rich Bastar region and is considered a Maoist stronghold. Kashyap represents Bastar in the Lok Sabha.