Hooghly:
Tension continues to simmer in Khanakul in West Bengal's Hooghlydistrict, hours after Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee addressed apublic meeting there.
At the meeting, Mamata Banerjee claimed the CPI-M was importing Maoistsfrom Nepal and providing them with arms to terrorise the people.
"The CPI (M) and the Maoists are twin brothers. They are resorting tokillings to terrorise people. Both of them are killers, and both haveno place in the land of West Bengal," she told the party rally.
Earlier, police had to lathi charge CPI-M demonstrators who brieflyblocked Mamata Banerjee's convoy at Champadanga, en route Khanakul fromKolkata. In Kabley, Trinamool supporters trying to reach the venue ofthe meeting attacked a CPM office and set it on fire.
There are reports of CPM and Trinamool supporters hurling bombs at each other, after the meeting ended.
Khanakul has been tense for a couple of months now, but the situationpeaked last week when CPM and Trinamool workers clashed repeatedly.
To add to it, a 70-year-old female CPM supporter who was allegedlyinjured in a clash in September, died in a Kolkata hospital thismorning.
At the meeting, Mamata Banerjee claimed the CPI-M was importing Maoistsfrom Nepal and providing them with arms to terrorise the people.
"The CPI (M) and the Maoists are twin brothers. They are resorting tokillings to terrorise people. Both of them are killers, and both haveno place in the land of West Bengal," she told the party rally.
Earlier, police had to lathi charge CPI-M demonstrators who brieflyblocked Mamata Banerjee's convoy at Champadanga, en route Khanakul fromKolkata. In Kabley, Trinamool supporters trying to reach the venue ofthe meeting attacked a CPM office and set it on fire.
There are reports of CPM and Trinamool supporters hurling bombs at each other, after the meeting ended.
Khanakul has been tense for a couple of months now, but the situationpeaked last week when CPM and Trinamool workers clashed repeatedly.
To add to it, a 70-year-old female CPM supporter who was allegedlyinjured in a clash in September, died in a Kolkata hospital thismorning.
