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posted by: Asmita Ravi Shankar
Last updated: July 15, 2023 at 3:20 PM IST
Kolkata (Calcutta), India
The violence in the polls of the Bengal Panchayat has resulted in severe damage and injury to many people. (analog file: PTI)
The TMC pointed the finger at the secular Indian Front for the murder, but the opposition party rejected the accusation.
A 61-year-old Congress worker from Trinamool, who was injured in a political clash in Bhangar in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district on the eve of the July 8 panchayat elections, died on Saturday, an official said.
The TMC pointed the finger at the secular Indian Front for the murder, but the opposition party rejected the accusation.
A Muslim Sikh was seriously injured in a bar attack in Bhangar on the night of 7 July when he was passing through a forested area, hours before the start of the panchayat elections. The official said he died in a private hospital in Kolkata.
TMC MLA of Canning Purba Saukat Molla, who is tasked with overseeing the party’s activity in Bhangar, alleged that Muslims were attacked without any provocation by ISF activists who unleashed a reign of terror in the region.
Bhangar is a strong ISF control area and the party’s only MLA is also from that constituency. The lawmaker in the Internal Security Forces, Nawsad Siddiq, denied the involvement of his party workers in any violence and called for an impartial, high-level investigation to “uncover the truth behind these deaths.” Al-Siddiq claimed that it was the idiots of the Transitional Military Council who attacked and killed many employees of the Internal Security Forces. in the recent past.
With the death of a Muslim, police sources said, the death toll in election-related violence in the panchayat since the announcement of the election date on June 8 has risen to 39.
The majority of those who lost their lives belong to the Transitional Military Council. BJP State President Sukanta Majumdar has alleged that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has failed to curb this culture of political violence which has led to the loss of so many lives.
“Every death is deplorable and tragic. This should not have happened… Why should panchayat surveys be synonymous with bullets, bombs, violence and loss of life only in West Bengal?”
Meanwhile, a person was stabbed to death in Canning in South 24 Parganas District on Friday night. The Transitional Military Council claimed he was a party supporter and accused the Internal Security Forces of being involved in the killing.
But the police sources could not confirm whether it was a political murder.
(This story was not edited by the News18 staff and was published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI)
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