Video: Bengal BJP Candidate Forced To Run As Protesters Throw Stones
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While the BJP has blamed the Trinamool Congress for the incident, the ruling party in Bengal said his security officers assaulted a woman while she was waiting in line to cast her vote outside a polling booth, triggering a protest.
Amid largely peaceful polling in West Bengal in the sixth phase on Saturday, the BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Jhargram had to run away from the Mangalapota area of Garbeta in West Midnapore district as stones were thrown at him and his security personnel. Mamata Banerjee is murdering democracy in Bengal. Now, TMC goons attack BJP's Jhargram (a Tribal seat) candidate and ABP Ananda's crew. Despite attempts to preclude people from casting vote, West Bengal has one of the highest voter turnout across the country. People are voting to… pic.twitter.com/ZMdTPhxiYw
Dramatic visuals showed security personnel carrying shields trying to protect the candidate, Pranat Tudu, as some people chase after him and a large stone hits a person just centimetres away. As a few more stones rained down around them, the candidate, security officers and some media personnel can be seen making a run for it.
While Mr Tudu has blamed "Trinamool Congress (TMC) goons" for the incident and claimed two of his security personnel suffered head injuries and had to be hospitalised, the ruling party in Bengal said his security officers assaulted a woman while she was waiting in line to cast her vote outside a polling booth. This, they said, triggered a protest.
