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  • Two critically injured in TMC-BJP clash in West Bengal’s Malda

    By PTI

    MALDA: Two persons were critically injured after being shot at during a clash allegedly between TMC and BJP supporters in West Bengal’s Malda district on Monday, police said.

    Superintendent of Police Alok Rajoria said that four people were arrested in connection with the incident that took place in Katlamari village in Harishchandrapur police station area.

    TMC alleged that two of its supporters were injured after being shot at by BJP members, while the saffron party claimed that the incident was a result of in-fighting within the ruling party in the state.

    The incident took place when two TMC supporters were traversing through the area and were allegedly attacked by the BJP members.

    BJP district president Gobinda Chandra Mondal claimed that TMC is putting the blame on the saffron party but the incident happened due to factional fighting within the ruling party in the state.

    TMC district spokesperson Shubhomoy Basu alleged that the BJP had hired goons from neighbouring Bihar to carry out the attack.

  • TMC-BJP clashes rock parts of West Bengal, few injured

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Clashes broke out between supporters of the ruling TMC and the BJP in several areas of East and West Midnapore districts of Bengal on Sunday, leaving a few of them injured, sources in the two parties said.

    Maintaining that the TMC launched an attack on the activists of his party, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said such harassment would only help the saffron camp grow from strength to strength.

    “With every attack on our party workers, more people would come out in our support,” Adhikari, who quit the Mamata Banerjee camp to join the BJP last month, told reporters during a roadshow in Purulia.

    Workers of the two parties also crossed swords at Bhajachauli in Kanthi area of East Midnapore district, the sources said.

    Local BJP leaders alleged that a few of its workers sustained injuries in the attack, even as the TMC claimed that infighting in the saffron camp led to the clashes.

    Violence was also reported from Marishda in East Midnapore district.

    At Keshpur in West Midnapore, activists of the two parties allegedly fought each other with bricks and sticks.

    Denying the BJP’s allegation, TMC East Midnapore district president Ajit Maity said that his party, in fact, had been “showing restraint in the face of provocation by saffron party supporters”.