India, March 11 -- Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gulfam Singh Yadav was killed after three unidentified people injected him with a poisonous substance in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal district on Monday afternoon. The BJP leader, who was also the former regional vice president of the party's western Uttar Pradesh unit, died on his way to the hospital.

According to Gunnaur's Circle Officer Deepak Tiwari, Gulfam Singh Yadav was sitting at his farm in Daftara village under Junawai police station when three men arrived on a bike and injected him with the substance, reported news agency PTI.

On Monday noon, when Gulfam Singh Yadav was sitting in his courtyard, three men made their way to meet him on a bike, said police. They exchanged greetings, s...