Anti-CAA movement claimed more lives in Bengal when two persons were killed and at least three others were seriously injured after alleged Trinamool Congress supporters opened fire and hurled bombs at Congress and Left workers backing a bandh at Jalangi area of Murshidabad district bordering Bangladesh, sources said.
Congress leader in Parliament Adhir Chowdhury who is also an MP from Murshidabad accused the Trinamool Congress saying the local leaders of the Bengal ruling outfit were under instructions from the higher leadership to thwart anti-CAA movement by other Opposition parties.
“The local TMC leaders organised the attack when the people of Jalangi were observing a bandh in protest against CAA,” Chowdhury said
questioning the true face of Mamata Banerjee’s movement against CAA.
A local villager said TMC’s Jalangi Block President Tahiruddin opened fire at the protesters, killing two people and injuring several others. The two deceased have been identified as Maqbool Sheikh and Anirudh Biswas.
“The police did not intervene despite repeated requests from the villagers when we saw TMC goons assembling with deadly weapons,” Shahrul Biswas, son of one of the deceased.
“Today, a strike was called in protest against CAA-NRC. While my father was returning, a few motor vans came and the Jalangi Block President of TMC Tahiruddin started firing randomly.
Police were present there but did not do anything to stop it,” Biswas said.
While local TMC MP Abu Taher denied that his party was involved in the clash CPI(M)’s Md Salim said “today’s attack only proves how the Mamata Banerjee does not walk the talk. She says something and does something else.
The TMC similarly tried to spoil the bandh called by the Left and the Congress against CAA and NRC last year, he said, adding “this proves that Modi and Didi are not only friends in need but also friends in deed.”
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said “the way the TMC men opened fire and hurled bombs only proves that the party belongs to anti-social elements.”