Councillor and 40 others injured in TC-CPI(M) clash
Around 40 people, including a councillor of Burdwan Municipality, was injured on Monday when CPI(M) cadre and Trinamool Congress activists clashed at Badgacha in West Bengal’s Burdwan district.
TC councillor Samir Roy and four other TC supporters were seriously injured when CPI-M cadre allegedly beat him up in the second-floor emergency ward of Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, police said.
Roy came to the hospital to see the injured TC supporters who was injured in the clash at Badgacha.
Local TC leaders alleged that policemen posted in the hospital following the clash at Badgacha were mute spectators as the CPI-M cadres beat up Roy.
Superintendent of Police, R Rajasekharan said he would enquire into the allegations on the role of the policemen.
Earlier at Badgacha village, the TC was supposed to hold a meeting in the area where those who had quit the CPI(M) were likely to join the TC. To stop the meeting, CPI(M) cadre attacked the TC party office at Badgacha, TC leaders claimed.
Police sources said around 35 people, including former CPI(M) MLA Sayampada Pal, was injured in the clash.
Many of the injured have been admitted to Burdwan Medical College Hospital and in the local primary health centre, sources added.