Left Front workers resorted to violent protests attacking police and jamming roads in various parts of Bengal after one of their youth wing workers, who was injured in Thursday’s police lathi-charge, succumbed to his injuries on Monday.
Maidul Islam Midda the 31-year-old activist of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, the youth wing of the CPIM, died on Monday. An autho-rickshaw driver from Bankura district had joined the Left Front called Nabanna (State secretariat) march when he sustained injuries when police used water cannons, burst tear gas shells and lathi-charged the rallyists.
Even as the politics heated up in an already charged pre-poll atmosphere Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee promptly offered job and financial help to the victims of the family iterating however that the “real reason of the his death would be known after postmortem.”
Doctors said the victim who had sustained muscular injuries to his leg died of excessive protein loss resulting in kidney failure and consequent cardiac arrest.
While the DYFI State secretary Sayandip Mitra called it a “political murder by the Chief Minister’s police,” State Minister Subrata Mukherjee said, “I am aware of the CPIM’s game plan to obtain corpses before the elections … Police were restrained on that day. But if someone wants to commit suicide, no one can help them.”