Violence rocks West Midnapore
MIDNAPORE:West Midnapore is reeling under fresh political violence in the run-up to the 2013 panchayat polls with no political party ready to concede any ground. The Congress has already announced it will go alone in the district civic polls. Four incidents of political clashes have been reported in the district in 24 hours and in two cases, Congress claimed that Trinamool men had attacked them.
In Pingla's Bajageria village, Pingla block Congress president Prasanta Chakraborty was severely assaulted, allegedly by Trinamool supporters. Chakraborty was first admitted in Pingla hospital, but as his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to Midnapore Medical College Hospital. District Congress president Swapan Dubey alleged that across the district, Congress workers were being assaulted by Trinamool members.
"We will meet the chief minister and apprise her of the matter," he said. In Nayagram, Congress district general secretary Anil Sikaria led a rally to protest the assault of Youth Congress supporters who'd gone to Nayagram to attend a Youth Congress training meet on Sunday. Sikaria later met Jhargram SP Gaurav Sharma and urged police to arrest the Trinamool supporters who'd perpetrated the attacks. The other attacks took place in Kharagpur (rural) and Narayangarh where CPM withstood the Trinamool surge in the assembly polls.
Trinamool blamed CPM for both the attacks. Police complaints were lodged in both the cases.
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