West Bengal: BJP chief assaulted by TMC goons in North 24 Parganas

The polling for the fifth section of West Bengal meeting elections started at 7 am on Saturday throughout 45 meeting segments amid tight safety. Reports of violence began pouring in merely an hour after the fifth section of polling started within the state. We reported how a BJP polling agent was allegedly assaulted in West Bengal’s North Bardhaman district within the early hours as we speak.
Now, in one other incident, a BJP polling agent named Ajit Dhar was reportedly assaulted by a TMC employee as he went to solid his vote within the Haroa constituency within the North 24 Parganas district. According to a report by Republic TV, the Trinamool Congress goons allegedly grabbed the BJP chief’s shirt and threatened him in opposition to voting for BJP.
BJP alleges that the celebration agent suffered a fracture on his head because of the assault. According to them, Ajit Dhar was attacked with sticks by by TMC employees, inflicting the damage to the top. The BJP employee has been admitted at Bardhaman Medical College for therapy.
The TMC employee requested the BJP agent the place he was going and demanded to know why he ‘took money’ from the Trinamool authorities throughout Cyclone Amphan. This led to a heated trade of phrases between the BJP polling agent and the TMC goon.
Simultaneously, incidents of stone-pelting have additionally been reported at sales space numbers 265 and 272 within the Shantinagar space of Bidhannagar, after TMC and BJP employees acquired into fistfights and verbal spat in entrance of central forces over allegations of sales space rigging. Several girls have been additionally reportedly injured within the assault.
According to a different BJP polling agent Subrata Ghosh stated that he witnessed the assault on Dhar by TMC employees, and after the incident, he couldn’t enter the polling station. According to Ghosh, no BJP poling agent has been allowed to enter the first faculty, the place 4 election cubicles have been arrange for the elections.
Earlier within the day, we reported that crude bombs have been hurled at ballot sales space 114 in West Bengal’s Minakhan Assembly. The Trinamool Congress celebration had pinned the blame of the assault on the members of Peerzada Abbasuddin Siddique’s celebration Indian Secular Front. Besides, incidents of violence have additionally been reported from outdoors polling sales space 115 in Minakhan Assembly.
Meanwhile, 36.02 per cent voter turnout had been recorded until 11:37 am in West Bengal the place voting for the fifth section of the State’s Assembly elections is underway as we speak.