With the saffron warning falling on deaf ears, the ruling TMC mounted more attacks on the BJP workers, this time ransacking their houses and firing at them at Jamuria in Burdwan district.
Similar attacks also took place at Toofanganj in Coochbehar district in far off North Bengal, sources said. Jamuria falls under Asansol parliamentary constituency from where BJP’s Babul Supriyo won in the general elections defeating TMC’s labour leader Dola Sen by more than 70,000 votes. The attacks seemed to come as the ruling outfit’s response to the voters’ decision to support Supriyo.
Bullets were recovered from the spot sources said adding the BJP workers’ houses were shattered as “we had worked in the elections for the BJP.” A number of villagers had fled their houses fearing more such attacks.
“The Trinamool is running a Government of terror in Bengal and there is a need for all the like-minded people to come together to combat this situation” the local BJP MP who had a couple of days ago helped a number of villagers return home said.
Similar attacks took place at Toofanganj in Coochbehar district of North Bengal where some BJP workers were punished by alleged Trinamool men who threw hot, boiling oil at them for daring to work for the saffron outfit during the polls. In both the cases the Trinamool denied such attacks.
Curiously the attacks come close on the heels of a high-level central BJP team led by Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi visiting Bengal. The team had toured the affected areas of Sandeshkhali in Basirhat where 22 party men were injured after being fired at by the TMC for voting in favour of the BJP.