KOLKATA/SITALKUCHI/JALPAIGURI: TMC candidate and West Bengal minorities affairs minister Giyasuddin Molla suffered a grievous head injury when attacked on Wednesday evening at Rajarhat by men allegedly belonging to Indian Secular Front and BJP, while Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh’s convoy was attacked by suspected TMC activists in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Wednesday.
Molla was taken to a local nursing home, while agitated supporters set ablaze a bus stationed on the side of a road. “I was attacked when I was on my way home. Goons from ISF and BJP attacked me with bamboo poles,” Molla said.