Clashes mar outreach programmes of BJP, TMC in poll-bound Bengal

Clashes have marked the outreach programmes launched by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier this week in poll-bound West Bengal.

Violence have been making headlines ever because the BJP emerged because the ruling celebration’s principal adversary through the panchayat polls in 2018. The clashes peaked across the Lok Sabha polls final 12 months. The meeting elections are due in about 5 months. The BJP has alleged that 120 of its employees have murdered within the state because the panchayat polls.

On Saturday, the Barabani space of West Burdwan district was rocked by clashes between supporters of the 2 events. Lakshman Ghorui, president of the BJP’s district unit alleged that 5 of his employees sustained bomb and bullet accidents after they have been attacked by criminals backed by the TMC.

“Our workers assembled around noon for a procession planned as part of the ar noi anyay (no more injustice) programme. They were attacked without provocation. One worker was hit by a bullet,” mentioned Ghorui.

Hitting again, Jitendra Tiwari, the TMC district president, mentioned: “It is a false allegation. The clash took place between two rival groups of the BJP. Our party is not involved at all.”

TMC’s native lawmaker Bidhan Upadhyay, alternatively, alleged that employees of the ruling celebration have been attacked by the BJP at Jamgram after they have been visiting houses as a part of the “duware sarkar (government at the doorstep)” programme launched by chief minister Mamata Banerjee earlier this week. A big police contingent headed by Manav Singla, assistant commissioner of Asansol-Durgapur Police rushed to the spot to manage the scenario.

BJP nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya went to a non-public hospital in Durgapur on Saturday night to see the injured celebration employee.

“The situation is now under control,” a senior police officer of the district mentioned on situation of anonymity on Sunday. “The BJP approached the police to seek permission for its programme but it was not given to avoid tension since both parties wanted to hit the streets in the same area,” he added.

In the same incident, a number of BJP employees have been allegedly overwhelmed up at Sitai within the north Bengal’s Cooch Behar district on Saturday. Nisith Pramanik, the BJP Lok Sabha member from Cooch Behar, alleged that bombs have been hurled by TMC employees when BJP employees have been participating within the ar noi anyay programme.

Noor Alam Hussain, the karmadhakshya of the TMC-controlled zilla parishad, denied the allegation and mentioned the conflict occurred between rival teams of the BJP.

Kolkata, too, witnessed some stress between two factions of the TMC in north Kolkata throughout a “duware sarkar” camp. There was nonetheless no violence.