DHAKA: Two men on a motorcycle shot dead on Monday a politician from the ruling party of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh, the second such killing in a week, prompting concern about lawlessness in the northern state.

Omveer Singh, a local politician of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was riding a motorcycle to his hometown around 7:00am when two unidentified men pulled up and ‘shot him till he died’, said local police official Kamal Singh.

Singh shot back and wounded one of the assailants, but they managed to drive away.

They did not take the two mobile phones, wallet and cash the politician had on him, said the policeman, reports The Straits Times.

The shoot-out took place in Muzaffarnagar district, a flashpoint in western Uttar Pradesh in which some 60 people were killed in Hindu-Muslim riots last year.

It was the latest in a surge of apparently unconnected violent incidents coinciding with a summer heatwave and the general election last month won by the BJP.

BDST: 2119 HRS, JUNE 10, 2014