On Sunday, BJP workers claimed that TMC workers attacked BJP workers several times and also attacked Nand Kishore Thakur and his family, who is the party booth president.
On Monday in the Matigara area of Siliguri, West Bengal’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers started to raise a protest and called for ‘bandh’, after Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers attacked BJP workers.
On Sunday, BJP workers claimed that TMC workers attacked BJP workers several times and also attacked Nand Kishore Thakur and his family, who is the party booth president. According to a BJP leader’s statement in a media report, the following attack took place when BJP workers started chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’, and after the attack, almost 15 party workers were injured and hospitalised.
On Sunday, Nan Kishore Thakur, the party BJP booth president, told a news report that, After the voting concluded, we went to our homes… Then, on Saturday, they came and started hurling abuse, threatening to finish off the entire Thakur family for supporting the BJP. We were not at home at the time. Later, we informed the village chief and former village chief [about the threats], but no action was taken. On Sunday morning, there was another episode involving abuse. We came to the police station to lodge an FIR, but it was not registered. He also added, They belonged to the TMC. He also stated that around 25–30 people came to his house in the evening in the evening and attacked him and his family.
Pramanik raised questions on the current condition of the state and said that, We called the bandh because of what is happening in north Bengal; this isn’t Kolkata. The voting was done peacefully, and after voting as well, everything was peaceful, and he also added that the bandh is being carried out in peace as well. We asked everyone nicely, and they agreed with the bandh.
