Motihari district BJP vice-president Rai Shivaranjan Sharma, was gunned down by unidentified assailants near here on Saturday night, the additional police superintendent, D.K. Verma, said.
Verma said that armed assailants gunned down the BJP leader near Motijhil when he was returning to his residence.Two persons have been named accused in the FIR lodged in this connection, Verma said.