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Six persons, including a youth supposedly close to an elected panchayat head of the BJP, were arrested on Thursday in connection with a recent attack on the BJP candidate of the Malda Assembly seat. On April 18, BJP candidate Gopal Chandra Saha was in his car in Old Malda block when gunshots were fired at him and a bullet hit his neck. Thursday’s arrests reignited the political blame-game of the BJP and Trinamul. The arrested are Bittu Chowdhury, Akash Mandal, Arjun Ghosh, Bikash Haldar, Suman Ghosh and Sayan Saha. Akash is close to Ukil Mandal, head of the BJP-run Sahapur panchayat. “He (Akash) is ill and has no connection with the incident,” said the BJP’s Ukil Mandal. ....
A tug-of-war between the Congress and the Trinamul Congress over A.B.A. Ghani Khan Choudhury’s political legacy came to the fore once again on Wednesday, the death anniversary of the Malda Congress stalwart. On Wednesday, leaders of both the parties observed Ghani’s death anniversary, claiming themselves as the “right successors” to his political legacy. CPM leaders, too, for the first time, went to Kotowali, Ghani’s ancestral house located 10km from here, to offer floral tributes at his tomb. In the past also, leaders of Trinamul and the Congress had paid tributes to Ghani on his birth anniversary. The Left Front is fighting the current Assembly polls in alliance with the Congress. ....
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