Four more killed in Bengal violence

KOLKATA: Post Panchayat poll violence in West Bengal claimed the lives of four, including three CPI(M) activists, as clashes between CPI(M) and RSP were reported from South 24 Parganas and North Dinajpur districts on Monday.
In all, 15 persons were killed in poll-related clashes and bomb explosion during Sunday''s Panchayat election. The run up to it had also claimed 19 lives.
Re-polling was being held at 93 booths spread across different districts.Murshidabad accounted for the largest number of 30 booths for re-poll, state election commission sources said.
The bodies of three CPI(M) supporters, killed in a clash with Congress activists, were recovered late on Sunday night from Chargopalpur and Rosannagar area under Islampur police station in Murshidabad district, district police sources said.
The body of Basudev Bhakat, a CPI(M) candidate abducted allegedly by Jharkhand Party activists on Sunday evening in West Midnapore district, was found from Panchami forest early on Monday morning, the sources said.
The paramilitary Eastern Frontier Rifles, the Rapid Action Force and CRPF were deployed in Jhargram, a Jharkhand Party stronghold, as a precautionary measure against retaliation from the CPI(M), the sources said.
Clashes between CPI(M) and RSP, a partner of the ruling Left Front, were reported from South 24 Parganas and North Dinajpur districts in which seven RSP workers were injured, the sources said.
Senior RSP leader Kshiti Goswami alleged that the CPI(M) activists threatened his party MLA Subhas Naskar at Basanti in South 24 Parganas district. Several RSP workers were also driven out from the area, he claimed.