VIDEO- West Bengal Panchayat Polls: Minister Rabindra Nath Ghosh Slaps BJP Supporter

Politics in West Bengal turned violent today after news started spreading about the murder of four people in panchayat polls, and now other news is that a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter Sujit Kumar Das was slapped by West Bengal Minister Rabindra Nath Ghosh at Cooch Behar’s booth no 8/12 in the presence of police.

A video is going viral where minister’s allies are slapping Sujit continuously, but Ghosh claimed he did not do it. As panchayat polls get underway, many incidents of violence have been reported from different pockets of the state.

In North 24 Parganas, a Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPM worker and his wife, who were charred to death after their house was torched last night, alleged that TMC workers were behind the attack.

Incidents of violence were also reported from Bhangar, where a media vehicle was torched and a camera was broken, after which media was prohibited from entering the area. Furthermore, Bhangar locals blocked the roads, alleging that TMC workers were capturing the polling booth.

On the other hand, a TMC worker, Anarul Mita, suffered bullet injuries in an attack in Cooch Behar’s Dinhata on late Sunday night, after which he was admitted to the hospital in a critical condition.

#WATCH: On being identified, BJP supporter Sujit Kumar Das, was slapped by #WestBengal Minister Rabindra Nath Ghosh (in purple kurta) at Cooch Behar's booth no. 8/12 in presence of Police. #PanchayatElection pic.twitter.com/9S2gyAoNQt

— ANI (@ANI) May 14, 2018