Political tensions escalated in Kolkata’s Sakherbazar and Behala Paschim areas on Sunday night after clashes broke out between supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) and West Bengal’s ruling All India Trinamool Congress, resulting in vandalism, arson and a chaotic scenario on the streets.
In accordance with stories, the conflict at Sakherbazar on the southwestern outskirts of Kolkata erupted over using microphones by an area membership, allegedly performed at a excessive quantity.
The BJP claimed that Trinamool Congress staff obstructed their assembly by enjoying loud music and planting social gathering flags on the BJP’s assembly venue. Following this, BJP supporters allegedly vandalised an occasion organised by Trinamool chief Sudip Polley. In retaliation, Trinamool supporters reportedly set fireplace to and vandalised the BJP’s assembly stage.
The BJP additional alleged that former Tripura Chief Minister and BJP election co-incharge Biplab Kumar Deb addressed a rally on the location earlier within the day as a part of the social gathering’s ‘Parivartan Sankalp Yatra’ forward of the Bengal meeting polls. Throughout the clashes later within the night, a makeshift stage from the place Deb had addressed the general public assembly was allegedly set on fireplace.
Moments after BJP election co-incharge and former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb addressed voters on the Parivartan Sankalp Sabha in Behala Paschim, Trinamool staff allegedly stormed the venue, vandalised the positioning, and after his departure set the sabha stage on fireplace in the midst of a bustling market.
One fireplace tender was pressed into service to convey the blaze underneath management, an official stated.
TMC MLA from the Behala Purba constituency Ratna Chatterjee claimed that some BJP supporters accosted members of the native membership throughout a badminton event.
“The Trinamool Congress will make its stance more durable, the extra they resort to such ways,” she advised reporters after visiting the membership.
Native BJP leaders, nevertheless, alleged that some goons set fireplace to the makeshift stage at Sakherbazar from the place Biplab Kumar Deb addressed the rally earlier within the day.
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