TMC, BJP supporters clash during campaign in West Bengal’s Hooghly; FIR lodged

NEW DELHI: Supporters of the Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party clashed during an predetermination run connected Friday successful the Hooghly territory of West Bengal, quality bureau ANI reported.Biman Ghosh, BJP's campaigner from the Pursurah Assembly constituency, alleged that 4 enactment workers sustained insignificant injuries successful the incident.

He besides said that a FIR is being filed astatine the section constabulary station.Speaking to ANI, Ghosh accused TMC workers of disrupting the run and warned of a beardown electoral result for the BJP. He said, "They (the TMC members) were creating a ruckus during the predetermination campaign; they, too, indispensable realise what awaits them aft the 4th, erstwhile a BJP 'tsunami' sweeps crossed Bengal. It would beryllium champion for them to mend their ways earlier it is excessively late.

Four of our workers person sustained insignificant injuries, and we are filing an FIR astatine the constabulary station".The incidental comes astatine a clip erstwhile campaigning has intensified up of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, with some parties trading crisp governmental attacks.Earlier connected Friday, the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP engaged successful a warfare of words implicit the BJP’s precocious released Bengal Sankalp Patra. The document, themed astir “Sonar Bangla” (Golden Bengal), outlines a projected displacement successful governance, with a absorption connected nationalist security, younker employment and women’s safety.

Launching the manifesto successful Kolkata, Union location curate Amit Shah described it arsenic a roadmap to alteration governance successful the authorities and align it with the broader imaginativeness of a “Viksit Bharat”.Shah besides criticised the Trinamool Congress government, alleging that 15 years of its regularisation had resulted successful a breakdown of instrumentality and bid and wide nationalist dissatisfaction. He said the manifesto aimed to bring “every conception of Bengal retired of despair” and connection “a caller mode guardant for farmers surrounded by fear”.He further claimed that radical successful the authorities were “frightened and disillusioned” and were seeking change, reiterating that the BJP’s governance exemplary aligns with the imaginativeness of nationalist development.Polling for the 294-member West Bengal Assembly volition beryllium conducted successful 2 phases connected April 23 and April 29, with counting scheduled for May 4.