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8/11/06 Pune: Political enmity has taken place among the political parties three months ahead of the civic election when BJP chief of Pimpri-Chinchwad unit Ankush Landge (45) was brutally murdered by a rival gang. Tension prevailed in Bhosari suburb of Pimpri-Chinchwad when angry supporters of Landge lynched two suspected murderers and went on rampage. Landge was hacked to death by rivals in front of his house.

BJP workers in Pimpri-Chinchwad were shocked over the incident as Landge is said to be one of those who made the party powerful in Pimpri-Chinchwad area. It was during his tenure that BJP could increase its strength of corporators from three to 15 in the last election. BJP sources said that the party was hoping to bag as many as 35 seats in the next civic elections under Landge's leadership.

IMO: Is this a taste of what we might soon get in the UK? There is an old saying : "What Pimpri-Chinchwad does today, the World does tomorrow". UK politics is getting too corrupt and there is by now nobody fit to vote for in the UK, especially not the Tory "hug-a-hoodies". Perhaps the UK Tories are by now so desperate they have to enlist young criminals ("hoodies") to act for them. This can happen even in well run democracies, as when previously the US CIA had apparently tried to abolish the UK Labor Parliament and elect as supremo the late Lord Mountbatten (a real idiot, and the Queen's "Uncle Dickie"; I know nothing of pedophile insinuations). Still Mountbatten could always been diverted back to his favorite hobby - partitioning India or in this case partitioning Pakistan into the Punjab and "the rest". They could even have played football against each other, something which might have encouraged retired jocks like Mountbatten.