This story is from May 29, 2019

West Bengal: Post-poll clashes rock Cooch Behar, Nadia

West Bengal: Post-poll clashes rock Cooch Behar, Nadia
A Trinamool office that was ransacked in Maynaguri on Tuesday
KOLKATA: With post-election violence continuing across Bengal on Tuesday, Maruganj in Cooch Behar’s Toofanganj witnessed a skirmish between residents, many of them BJP supporters, and police. Locals alleged that police resorted to a lathicharge to disperse a crowd shouting slogans at state minister and Trinamool district president Rabindranath Ghosh.
Ghosh stopped his convoy, got off and was allegedly heard ordering police to lathicharge those shouting slogans.
He was travelling from Cooch Behar town to Krishnapur, also in Toofanganj, along NH-31 when the incident happened.
The crowd allegedly attacked cops and damaged a police vehicle. Several BJP supporters and other locals were injured.
Ghosh said: “The crowd was blocking the highway. They had created trouble earlier, too. We oppose this culture of blockades and damaging police vehicles.”
Cooch Behar’s newly elected BJP MP Nisith Pramanik said: “Maruganj witnessed what we saw at the fag end of Left rule in Bengal. Trinamool men wearing slippers disguised themselves as cops and were in the police vehicle. It was not just BJP workers but ordinary people who protested.”
Amid the trouble, Ghosh allegedly boarded his car and left. He had set out for Krishnapur after hearing that a TMC office there had been taken over allegedly by BJP workers. Krishnapur is in Natabari assembly segment where BJP took a sizeable lead in the LS polls. Ghosh hoisted the TMC flag on reaching the office.
At Kesaipur Bankapara in Nadia’s Dhantala, 10 people were injured in a BJP-TMC clash on Monday night.
In West Midnapore’s Kespur, two TMC supporters were allegedly beaten up by BJP men at Jamira village on Monday night and a TMC office was taken over by BJP. “Action will be taken if we get a complaint,” said SP Alok Rajoria.
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