MALDA, 19 JUNE: The CPI-M English Bazaar local committee leaders staged a protest meeting in Ward no 11 this evening, after the CPI-M candidate for the municipality by-polls, scheduled on 28 June, was allegedly assaulted by a group of Congress workers.
On the basis of the complaint lodged by the CPI-M candidate Mr Dilip Choudhury, English Bazaar police arrested four persons including a CPI-M supporter today. A team of police personnel was deployed to maintain law and order in view of the mounting tension running in the area.
The CPI-M alleged that one shop, belonging to the candidate's brother had been set on fire last night. "When Mr Chowdhury arrived at the spot this morning he was beaten up by a gang of Congress-backed miscreants,” alleged a local CPI-M leader Mr Indrajit Mitra.
The Congress leaders including the Congress candidate for the particular ward, Mr Atul Singha, denied CPI-M's allegations. ‘The charge of Congress complicity in the incident is baseless.
The CPI-M is trying to unleash tension as part of its policy of scaring away the voters from the coming bypoll,” the Congress leaders counter alleged.
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