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Soon after the Midnapore incident, Union minister Muraleedharan sent out three Twitter posts, one with a 58-second video on the attack on his vehicle. “TMC goons attacked my convoy in West Midnapore, broken windows, attacked personal staff. Cutting short my trip,” he wrote. “We could not visit the house of Bengal BJP karyakarta Biswajit Mahesh, who was killed in the post-poll violence at his village Markundachak. Police advised us not to go after the attack on my convoy at Paanchkuri,” another post said.
Mahesh was found murdered in Sabang (West Midnapore) on Tuesday night. His family in an FIR said the murder was a fallout of a land dispute.
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On Sunday night, within hours of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjeeâs spectacular return to power, a group of alleged TMC supporters attacked the resident of Kamal Mandal. Mandal is the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party unit for booth 171 in Jagatdal constituency of North 24 Parganas district; the TMC won the Jagatdal seat on Sunday.
Mandal and his wife were beaten with bamboo sticks. His 80-year-old mother, Shobharani, tried to intervene but was hit too. All three were later hospitalised and Shobharani succumbed to her injuries.
At Hooghlyâs Khanakul, whose assembly seat the BJP won, alleged BJP supporters attacked the residence of a TMC worker, Debu Pramanik, in Nasibpur on Sunday night. They beat him and returned the next day to thrash him again. Pramanik was taken to a hospital where he died.
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