Days after BJP candidate and former India cricketer Ashok Dinda was attacked in West Midnapore and a day after a TMC worker was hacked to death at Keshpur, BJP’s candidate from Diamond Harbour constituency Dipak Haldar was badly beaten up by alleged Trinamool supporters, sources said.
Haldar who had been admitted to the Diamond harbor district hospital was stated to be in a critical condition. “Doctors have put him under observation and he may be shifted to Kolkata if his condition deteriorates,” a local BJP worker said.
It all happened when Haldar a former Trinamool MLA who recently joined the BJP was campaigning around Haridebpur area of his constituency.
“He was accosted by TMC men armed with guns and sticks … even the central forces who were guarding him could not save him,” said a BJP supporter adding the area was a base of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee and his close aide Shaukat Molla.
Abhishek Banerjee is the sitting TMC MP from Diamond Harbour parliamentary constituency where the convoy of BJP president JP Nadda was attacked about three months ago.