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Crude bombs recovered in WB s North 24 Parganas ANI | Updated: May 03, 2021 09:39 IST
The explosives were put inside two buckets at an abandoned room in the Bhatpara area that comes under the Jagatdal Assembly constituency.
Police have reached the spot to investigate the matter.
Local Trinamool Congress alleged Bharatiya Janata Party-backed miscreants for the incident. Ashim Kumar Ghosh, the Panpur Keutia Panchayet Pradhan said: There bombs were to attack us.
Earlier on April 26, an 18-year-old student died in an explosion in the Guptarbagan area of the district.
TMC has won the general election in West Bengal on Sunday. As per the latest trends of the Election Commission on Monday, TMC has won 209 seats and is leading in four. About 47.94 per cent of the total voted were in the TMC s favour. It received about 38.1 per cent of the total. Bharatiya Janata Party, on the other hand, has secured 76 seats and is leading in one.
Mukul Roy, the former Trinamul Congress Number 2 and currently a BJP national vice-president, was up for a surprise when Union home minister Amit Shah asked him to fight the 2021 Bengal Assembly polls as a candidate.
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Mukulda na korey diten, kintu Amitji bollen tumko ladna hi hoga. Dada aar na kortey parenni. (Mukulda would’ve declined the offer, but Amitji said you’ll have to contest. Dada couldn’t turn it down,” a close aide to Roy said.
Twenty years back, in 2001, Roy had fought elections for the first time on a Trinamul Congress ticket from the Jagatdal Assembly seat. He was defeated by Forward Bloc’s Haripada Biswas by a margin of 13,402 votes. That was the only time Roy was fielded as a candidate in his four-decade-long political career.