Video: Bengal BJP Candidate Forced To Run As Protesters Throw Stones

Kolkata: 

The BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Jhargram had to run away from the Mangalapota area of ​​Garbeta in West Midnapore district as stones were thrown at him and his security personnel during the sixth phase of polling on Saturday. 

Dramatic visuals showed security personnel carrying shields trying to protect the candidate, Pranat Tudu, as some people chase after him and a large stone hits a person just centimetres away. As a few more stones rained down around them, the candidate, security officers and some media personnel can be seen making a run for it. 

While Mr Tudu has blamed “Trinamool Congress (TMC) goons” for the incident and claimed two of his security personnel suffered head injuries and had to be hospitalised, the ruling party in Bengal said his security officers assaulted a woman while she was waiting in line to cast her vote outside a polling booth. This, they said, triggered a protest. 

In a post on X, the BJP’s Bengal co-incharge, Amit Malviya, also blamed the TMC for the attack and claimed that people are voting to “kick out” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party.