WB panchayat poll violence: Basudeb Acharia assaulted, TMC workers clash with supporters of opposition parties

Veteran CPI(M) leader Basudeb Acharia was assaulted allegedly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters as clashes broke out in several districts between activists of the TMC and opposition parties - BJP, Congress and Left - in continuing political violence during filing of nominations for the May panchayat polls.

Several people were injured in the clashes today involving ruling Trinamool Congress and Congress in Kandi area in Murshidabad district and between BJP and TMC workers in Coochbehar and Birbhum districts