BJP Candidate "Thrashed With Sticks" While Campaigning In Bengal's Diamond Harbour: Cops

West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: Diamond Harbour is the Lok Sabha constituency of Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

BJP candidate for Bengal's Diamond Harbour Dipak Haldar and his supporters were allegedly thrashed in the South 24 Parganas district during their election campaign this morning, the police said. BJP's Diamond Harbour candidate Dipak Halder was campaigning in Haridebpur area in the district at around 9:30 am when his supporters got engaged in a war of words with a few people, they said. "Amid the verbal duel, Dipak Halder and his supporters were allegedly thrashed with sticks," police said. Mr Halder, a former Trinamool MLA who recently joined the BJP ahead of the Assembly elections, has been admitted to a hospital following the attack.