TMC sends fact-finding teams across Bengal, alleges attacks and killings after poll defeat

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Wreckage is seen astatine  the TMC bureau   pursuing  the West Bengal Assembly predetermination  result. File

Wreckage is seen astatine the TMC bureau pursuing the West Bengal Assembly predetermination result. File | Photo Credit: PTI

Trinamool Congress teams visited respective areas of West Bengal to instrumentality banal of complaints related to post-poll violence and alleged predetermination manipulations. TMC enactment claimed that astatine slightest 10 of their workers were “brutally murdered” aft the predetermination results. 

Three fact-finding teams from Kolkata which included galore elder TMC leaders visited different parts of the State and spoke to respective enactment workers. 

“They kept abusing us even aft we did truthful overmuch work for them. These are each BJP workers,” a pistillate TMC idiosyncratic from Hooghly said that she and her household came nether onslaught aft the elections concluded successful the State. 

TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP, Dola Sen, who was portion of 1 of the fact-finding teams said that their enactment workers and communal radical are besides coming nether onslaught by the BJP workers successful the past fewer days. 

“They person breached galore homes and overtaken galore of our enactment offices. They are besides trying to interruption up each the authorities bodies and offices... However, adjacent aft truthful overmuch intimidation, our workers are not scared,” Ms. Sen said. She further added that they will submit their findings to the authorities and the High Court, wherever the TMC is warring a lawsuit against the post-poll violence. 

“TMC counting agents beaten up severely crossed Bengal and thrown retired of counting centres post 2 pm. (It was astatine 2 p.m. that all godi media channels successful unison began to flash “BJP victory.”),” TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose claimed based connected the fact-finding teams’ takeaways. 

West Bengal Minister Ashok Kirtania criticised the TMC’s fact-finding team and said that they person nary narration to the “drama Mamata Banerjee” is doing. 

“Our CM has said successful the Assembly that if immoderate TMC idiosyncratic is stateless owed to post-poll issues, then submit their names to the DGP, they volition be brought back... But the post-poll unit that happened with the BJP workers aft 2021 elections, we volition not fto that go,” Mr. Kirtania said. 

Meanwhile, TMC chairperson and wide caput Abhishek Banerjee met with members of the party’s ineligible compartment to combat the onslaught on their workers. 

“At a clip erstwhile our workers are being brutally attacked, abused and subjected to relentless intimidation, we indispensable basal agreed to support their rights, uphold their dignity and unafraid justness for each unfortunate of governmental violence,” an authoritative connection from the TMC connected their societal media pages said. 

The enactment which went retired of powerfulness aft 15 years and mislaid by a immense borderline to the BJP besides claimed that implicit 3,000 of their workers were attacked aft the last canvass results, and astatine slightest 10 of them were killed. 

Two days backmost connected May 14, Ms. Banerjee, the erstwhile CM of Bengal, appeared earlier the Calcutta High Court successful a lawyer’s robe to argue a lawsuit filed by her enactment against the post-poll violence. 

The Calcutta High Court directed the constabulary to guarantee safe return of victims affected by violence. However, this occurrence has besides near the Bar Council of India asking astir the validity and presumption of Ms. Banerjee’s ineligible licence to signifier successful courts. 

Published - May 17, 2026 01:09 americium IST

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