Statesman News Service
MALDA, May 14: Tension in Kaliachak areas has subsided after the two ‘abducted’ people returned home. Both the CPI-M worker and the Congress candidate have returned home following police intervention in the matter. The CPI-M and the Congress leaders came down heavily on the police yesterday when two of their men were found missing form their respective areas. Police are trying hard to crack the actual mystery behind the ‘kidnapping’ story. According to the statement by the two ‘victims’ political leaders are not sure whether the incident has political undertones. Police had traced Mr Sentu Sheikh, husband of Mrs Jarisa Bibi, a CPI-M candidate of a gram panchayat seat at Chori Anantapur in Kaliachak-III Block, at Barharwa in Jharkhand. It was learnt that a group of unidentified people picked up him on Monday night when he was returning home after campaigning for his wife. Sheikh did not give any specific clue to the police regarding the abductor. Sheikh was forced to stay there for at least four days. But he managed to flee the spot. On the other hand, Mr Ataur Sheikh, the Congress gram panchayat candidate has returnedhome from Durgapur in Burdwan district with the help of police. He told the police that he was picked up by some people and he suspected that they belonged to his rival CPI-M leader and candidate there.The CPI-M district leaders claimed that Ataur suspected the CPI-M leader because of his ‘personal enmity'. The Malda district police and administration have decided to pay special attention in some areas under the Kaliachak police stations for deployment of armed forces based on its past records of poll violence and crime records.Kaliachak police station is trying hard to nab some criminals who belong to various political groups like the CPI-M, RSP and the Congress and play active role in elections. Past records revealed that both the political parties had tried to capture and jam some booths under Sujapur and Kaliachak assembly segments. #
Statesman News Service
MALDA, May 14: Tension prevails across Malda district following stray political violence in the face of rural polls to be held on 18 May. Two groups of people exchanged heavy bombs in Kharba under Chanchal police station areas last night. Though the Congress claimed that the CPI-M members trying to capture the area are terrorising the people before rural polls, the CPI-M district leadership brushed aside the allegations . The CPI-M claimed that the clash in Chanchal area was not political, two groups of anti-socials clashed over the rights of their areas. In Old Malda, the CPI-M alleged that the Congress workers damaged its temporary election office last night. The area Balarampur near Sahapur under Malda police station is tense after the incident. Tension is mounting high over the rights of area at Gopalpur in English Bazaar where the RSP and the CPI -M candidates are fighting to prove their existence in gram panchayat polls. The RSP had also alleged that one its active worker Mr Firoz Sheikh was beaten up by the CPI-M worker at Balatali village in Old Malda, and the district RSP leaders lodged a diary with the police a few days ago. At Fulbaria and Nagharia villages the Congress is trying to retain its secured votes this year to win the three-tier polls particularly to bag a Zilla Parishad seat against the CPI-M. Tension is brewing following a scuffle between the workers of the Congress and the CPI-M here since last night.
A quarrel between two families over an love affair turned into a political clash between the CPI-M and the Congress at Sreepatipur village in Chanchal police station last night. While the CPI-M took the boy's side who had refused to marry a girl, the Congress sided with the family of the pregnant girl. In the scuffle bombs were hurled, which injured 12 persons.
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