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TC, BUPC supporters lathicharged at Nandigram
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LOCALCORRESPONDENT on 10 May, 2008 04:00:00
 
In yet another incidence of violence ahead of Sunday’s Panchayat polls,
some Trinamool Congress and BUPC supporters were lathicharged on Saturday by the
Rapid Action Force as they tried to prevent a truck with material for elections
from moving out of the BDO`s office.
The TMC and Bhumi Ucched Pratirodh Committee workers had stopped the truck on
the ground that they would be unable to vote as they had been driven out of
their villages, the police said.
Justifying the lathicharge, the office-in-charge of Nandigram Debasish
Chakraborty said, "Police have done their duty." A journalist was also injured
in RAF action, he said.
The truck carrying the election material moved out after the supporters were
dispersed.
The CRPF, meanwhile, searched the house of a CPI(M) supporter Panchanan Jana at
Kakaberia after initially being denied permission by the police. However,
nothing was found.
A BUPC supporter was yesterday admitted to a hospital after he was allegedly
beaten up by suspected CPI(M) activists, sources in organisation had said.
On his part, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee had played down the renewed
violence at Nandigram while assuring the people yesterday of a "peaceful"
Panchayat election.