India, Sept. 19 -- The Congress on Friday accused the BJP of committing "murder of democracy" in West Bengal after the opposition party's candidate for the October 6 Nandigram bypoll, Milan Pradhan, was arrested in the 2007 anti-land acquisition movement case.

While Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge termed the arrest a brazen attempt at "vote chori" and "chunav chori", Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said it was "political revenge".

Kharge claimed that Pradhan's arrest was "a brazen attempt at VOTE CHORI and CHUNAV CHORI".

He said the BJP was so insecure that it was "misusing" agencies to target and arrest an opposition candidate even in a bypoll.

"The Prime Minister boasts of India as the "Mother of Democ...