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Snehal Sengupta | | Published 23.04.21, 01:21 AM Shantinagar, behind Sukantanagar, was witness to the biggest incident of unrest last Saturday when polling for the Bidhannagar Assembly constituency was largely peaceful. The Trinamul Congress (TMC) and BJP supporters got into a scuffle in front of Naobhanga Primary School polling station, that prompted both BJP candidate Sabyasachi Dutta and TMC’s Sujit Bose to reach the spot. The day after the polls, too, trouble erupted in Duttabad as clashes broke out among supporters of rival parties at Duttabad, on the fringes of Salt Lake, that left five persons injured, police said. Ballot blues At around 10am, trouble started brewing at the polling station in Shantinagar when some women voters who were waiting in the school’s field alleged that that a group of unknown men had pelted stones a ....
Kolkata: Sporadic violence highlighted by a scuffle between BJP and Trinamool Congress supporters at Shantinagar in Salt Lake that required intervention of both TMC and BJP Bidhannagar candidates Sujit Bose and Sabyasachi Dutta respectively blemished the otherwise peaceful process at Rajarhat New Town, Bidhannagar and Rajarhat Gopalpur constituencies. After a series of complaints of faulty EVMs leading to delay in start of voting process in the morning at Salt Lake, Baguiati, Narayanpur and Rajarhat areas, the first large-scale trouble broke out at Shantinagar off Chingrighata around 10am when some women in the voters’ queue alleged a group of outsiders pelted stones at them, injuring some of them and creating a commotion in the area. A huge police force including RAF rushed to the place to bring things under control. ....