The BJP on Tuesday demanded deployment of Central forces for conducting the May 14 civic elections for seven municipal boards. The demand was made by State party president Dilip Ghosh hours after alleged Trinamnool Congress goons attacked the house of a BJP leader. “The attack on our State committee member’s house makes it all the more necessary to deploy central forces in the municipal elections,” said Ghosh.
Raiganj along with six other municipalities including, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Mirik, Kurseong, Domkal and Pujali will go to polls on May 14.
At least 25 rounds were fired outside the house of the BJP leader Pradip Sarkar sources alleged.
Meanwhile the BJP team led by its leader locket Chatterjee that on Tuesday visited the bomb blast site at Ausgram in Birbhum districtdemanded an investigation by the NIA. “The CID cannot investigate the incident because it is controlled by the TMC Government,” Chattopadhyay said adding her party wanted to know how many people were killed in the blast.
The Sunday blast inside a TMC office blew up the concrete structure into smithereens leading the Opposition to claim that bombs were being stock-piled inside the building. “The blast resembles the one that occurred at Khagragarh in 2014 killing two Bangladesh terrorists,” said the BJP leaders, adding they wanted to know whether similar terror trail was involved in the Ausgram blast.