Clash erupts between TMC, CPI-M near Kolkata, several hurt
According to reports, when an election of local Kona-Chamrail-Jagadishpur Cooperative Bank's credit society was underway, supporters of CPI-M and TMC engaged in a skirmish and had started throwing bricks aiming at each other.
Few shops were ransacked at the area when several motorcycles were vandalized thrown into ponds.
Later, alleging that TMC-sheltered miscreants had attacked local villagers on Sunday and charged crude bombs at the area since Saturday night, CPI-M activists and residents of the area blocked a road nearby.
A heavy police force was deployed there from Liluah Police Station nearby to bring the situation under control.
Local TMC leaders claimed that they were not involved in the clash.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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