CPM leader accuses TMC of attacking Left leaders during rally

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Press Trust of India Suri (WB)
Last Updated : Nov 21 2015 | 6:57 PM IST
Former CPI(M) MP Ramchandra Dom, sitting MLA Ashok Roy and former zilla parishad member Arup Bag were among the nine party activists who were injured in an attack allegedly carried out by Trinamool Congress activists during a rally at Satpalsa village in Birbhum district today.
Dom alleged that some known TMC members and anti-socials attacked him and fellow Marxists with rods and crude bombs when they were preparing to take out a 'jatha' (rally) as part of CPI(M)'s state-wide rally.
Dom said the injured, including Roy and Bag, had been hospitalised following the attack.
Countering the charge, TMC zilla parishad member from Mayureshwar, Jatil Mondal, said, "The allegation levelled by CPI(M) is baseless. It is a fallout of the factional-feud between the Marxists."
A senior police officer said a case has been lodged at the Mayureswar police station by CPI(M) and a police team had been sent to the village. "We are investigating. There has been no arrest so far but raids are on," he added.
The incident has come a day after CPI(M) MLA and Opposition leader Suryakanta Mishra was manhandled, allegedly by TMC men, at Narayangarh in West Midnapore during a rally.
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First Published: Nov 21 2015 | 6:57 PM IST

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