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News Desk: The hate rhetoric and a feeling of intense animosity left behind by the senior leaders of TMC and BJP in the run up to the elections continued to take its toll on the common people with reports of violence coming in from various parts of Bengal.
Violence continued in the post poll scenario with the BJP being the main opposition party bearing the brunt of it all, sources said adding the winning Trinamool Congress cadres went on rampage in many areas while the State saffron leadership frantically appealed to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to hold back her men.
The BJP party office in Arambag was set ablaze on Sunday evening as the TMC moved towards. The house of a BJP booth agent at Bishnupur in Bankura district was burnt down, sources said.
The Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, however, blamed the BJP workers for unleashing violence saying the saffron workers had hit TMC Arambagh candidate Sujata Mondal and hit her on the head.
While BJP IT cell chief Amit Malaviya tweeted, “After results for West Bengal assembly came in, TMC goons burnt down BJP’s party office in Arambagh…” asking “Is this what Bengal will have to suffer for the next 5 years?” reports of more violence came in from Siuri too where the alleged TMC men attacked a BJP leaders house and torched a tractor parked in front of it.
Similarly reports of violence came in from other parts of Birbhum where the TMC and BJP men hurled bombs at each other in Dubrajpur block. BJP men were also attacked at Kultali and Canning area, sources said alleging the police were not acting to the complaints being filed.
Making a frantic appeal to Mamata Banerjee, State BJP vice president HP Majumdar said, “We congratulate the her Excellency the Chief
Minister offer to give constructive cooperation to the government but we also hope that she would reign in her supporters and stop them from attacking our men just because they had worked for the BJP.”
