West Bengal Assembly elections | BJP men forcibly occupying booths, attacking TMC activists and candidates: Mamata

Mamata Banerjee said she has received at least 100 complaints of assault and violence since morning, and the EC has been duly informed but to no avail

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on April 6 claimed BJP activists were forcibly occupying polling booths and attacking TMC members, including party candidates, and asserted that she would not get bogged down by such “intimidatory tactics”. Addressing a public meeting Kalchini in Alipurduar district, the TMC chief said her party’s nominee in Arambagh, Sujata Mondal, was chased and hit on head near a polling booth by saffron party workers. “They have inflicted serious injury on our Scheduled Caste candidate Sujata, when she visited a booth. They also hit another candidate in Khanakul. In Canning East, security forces prevented our nominee Shaukat Mollah from entering a booth. There had been numerous such instances of attack on our candidates, party workers across the state,” Ms. Banerjee said.