Once again blood spilled at Nanoor block of Birbhum district notorious for the past several district for violent political clashes.A middle aged woman was shot dead by alleged Trinamool Congressworkers following a clash between BJP and the Bengal ruling outfit onMonday, sources said.
While the TMC denied having any link with the murder calling it aresult of an “inter-village clash over some extra-marital affair,”sources said Shankari Bagdi the victim who was also a local BJP leaderwas shot dead by TMC men months after she left that party and joinedthe saffron outfit.
“She was earlier a TMC panchayat member and had left that party recently,” said a local police officer, denying claims that politicshad anything to do with the murder. “Some miscreants had attacked herson and she tried to save him. In the process she got shot and died onspot,” officials said.
Sources also said several rounds were fired as a number of bulletsshells were found in and around the area.
Nanoor has been infamous for political clashes between the Left andthe Trinamool Congress for the past several decades. With the Marxistsjoining the BJP in the recent years it has turned into a TMC-BJP turf war.
Elsewhere at Narayangarh in West Midnapore two BJP workers werearrested after two TMC men were stabbed following political clashesover a political rally. The BJP claimed houses of their supporters hadbeen ransacked by alleged TMC goons.