Within hours of the Trinamool Congress coming back to power with a thumping majority, reports of attacks on losing parties inundated the Opposition party headquarters, sources said. At least 70 incidents of attacks, arsoning and bombing were reported from various parts of the State police said.
This, even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Trinamool will continue with victory celebrations, adding, the law and order was still with the Election Commission.
Attacks on CPI(M) party offices were reported from Midnapore, Jhargram, Chandannagar, Chinsurah, Asansol, sources said. At Dinhata, a BJP office was attacked and set on fire by alleged Trinamool goons. Several parts of Durgapur erupted late on Thursday noon with TMC workers ransacking and torching the CPI(M) offices. Many of the Opposition party offices were forcibly taken hold off by the Trinamool, CPI(M) State secretary Suryakanto Mishra said.
Many houses of Kanksa, Shankarpur and Kaliganj in Burdwan were attacked sources said adding attacks were also mounted at various places in North Kolkata’s Beliaghata.