Alleged Trinamool Congress men continued to attack opposition parties even as a former MP, a sitting MlA, a former MlA of two terms and district board chairman were brutally attacked on Saturday and made to do sit-ups in public view by the ruling party goons for joining protest rallies organised by the left Front even as the police looked the other way, sources said adding scores of general party men were also attacked and were currently recuperating in various hospitals.
The attack were organized at Mayureshwar in Birbhum district, when the CPI(M) leaders were leading a protest rally on various issues as a part of a statewide programme, Opposition leader Suryakanta Mishra said vowing to step up agitation in the coming days.
Among those attacked were Dr Ramchandra Dome a former CPI(M) MP and central committee member from Birbhum, Ashok Roy a sitting MlA, Dhiren let a former MlA of two terms and a district board chairman. While most injured got head injuries senior party leader Arup Bag was given a broken leg, Dome said alleging many women workers were molested and beaten up.
let a senior citizen was made to do sit-ups in public view for walking in the rally even as his forehead bled profusely. A local Trinamool leader Madhab Das was alleged to have orchestrated the attack, Roy said.
“I repeatedly called up the SP, ASP but none responded with a clear indication that there were previous instructions from above” said Dome. District Trinamool president Anubrata Mandal who earlier earned notoriety for publicly calling upon his men to bomb police vehicles and torching the rebel Trinamool workers’ houses said “no one from our party was involved. The attacks are the results of CPI(M) infighting.
Birbhum had over the past more than a year been a political hot bed with a bitter turf war going on between the BJP and Trinamool Congress. It is the same district where thousands were bombs were seized from various villages like Chowmandalpur, Makra etc.