Sitalkuchi repoll peaceful, clashes rock Birbhum and Murshidabad

Jalpaiguri/Suri/Berhampore: Repolling was largely peaceful on Thursday at booth 126 in

Sitalkuchi

, where CISF firing had killed four persons on April 10, even though the day witnessed some tense moments as Trinamool Congress candidate Partha Pratim Roy engaged in a verbal duel with a cop.

Birbhum

— where all the 3,800 polling stations were declared sensitive — had “peaceful polls”, according to district Trinamool president Anubrata Mondal who has been placed under EC vigil till Friday morning. Ground reports and complaints lodged with police suggested otherwise.

The car of BJP’s

Nanoor

candidate Tarakeswar Saha was vandalised early in the morning, allegedly by Trinamool supporters. Anirban Ganguly, BJP’s candidate from Bolpur, was attacked at Illambazar. Both his car and another in his convoy were damaged. While Ganguly blamed “Trinamool goons”, TMC candidate Chandranath Sinha denied the charges.

Biswajit Mondal, brother of BJP’s Mayureswar candidate Shyamapada Mondal, sustained head injuries in a clash while Mahadev Singha, a BJP IT cell worker, was injured at Illambazar. Nilabati Saha, Trinamool candidate from Sainthia, claimed two Trinamool workers were injured when central forces lathi-charged.

In

Murshidabad

district,

Domkal

witnessed violence, including bombing. A 37-year-old CPM worker, Kader Mondal, died in hospital following a road accident on Wednesday night. The CPM has claimed that Trinamool candidate Jafijul Islam’s car hit Kader and two others when they tried to stop him from campaigning. The others are in hospital.

Sanjukta Morcha supporters later intercepted and vandalised Islam’s car at Shibnagar, when he went there following booth capture complaints. Mustafijur Rahaman (Rana), the Morcha’s Domkal candidate, said Kader’s family members had lodged an FIR against the Trinamool candidate. Islam rubbished the charges and said: “The CPM, Congress and BJP are framing us.”

At Alinagar in Domkal, the house of Sanjukta Morcha polling agent Sabirul Islam was allegedly attacked by Trinamool supporters. He was not allowed to go to the booth. At Mominpur, also in Domkal, Morcha workers allegedly kidnapped a Trinamool agent. There were bombings at Raina. Police later seized 23 socket bombs in two containers.

TMC and Congress supporters clashed at Hosseinpur in Hariharpara, Murshidabad. Two houses and five vehicles were damaged. In Ghoshpara, Raipara and Rajapur in Jalangi, which are close to the Bangladesh border, Trinamool supporters allegedly attacked CPM workers. Five were injured. ADG (law and order) Jag Mohan, however, denied any incident of bombing in Birbhum, Malda and Murshidabad.