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UP: BJYM Mandal gen secy killed in road accident

Unnao/Lucknow, Jan 12 (UNI) A tragic road accident today claimed the life of a BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) mandal general secretary who was on his way to attend a programme of BJP state president Pankaj Chaudhary in Lucknow.
The deceased has been identified as Happy Rajput (26), a resident of Murtazanagar Soni in Unnao district. He was serving as the mandal general secretary of BJYM from the Bichhiya block of Unnao and also ran a mobile phone shop.
Happy Rajput was travelling from Unnao to Lucknow in an SUV vehicle along with seven others. Near Lala Kheda on the Lucknow–Unnao border, under the Asoha police station area, their vehicle collided head-on with a truck/dumper coming from the opposite direction. The impact was so severe that the SUV was completely mangled and its occupants were trapped inside.
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