BJP supporter killed in clash

 

Anshuman_Phadikar, Tamluk(EastMidnapore) : A BJP supporter was killed and 19 other party workers were injured allegedly in a clash that erupted on Friday night in East Midnapore’s Egra.
Residents of Barida village said a clash broke out when Trinamul workers protested against BJP supporters’ efforts to build a new party office.

“A clash broke out in which bricks and bamboo sticks were used. Many were injured,” said an eyewitness, adding two persons were grievously injured and rushed to Midnapore Medical College, but one of them died on the way.
On Saturday, 19 others were admitted to a hospital in Egra with moderate to serious injuries.
BJP sources said a group of recent joinees from the Trinamul had been “targeted”.
“Trinamul resented that they shifted to the BJP and targeted them,” said BJP’s Contai district president Anup Maity.
Trinamul sources denied the charges and called it a fall-out of “BJP’s infighting”.
Confirming the death of a person in a clash at Egra’s Barida on Friday night, a police officer in Egra said: “We are probing the incident to see if there were political links.”