CPM alleges TMC attack on party offices, condemns Delhi incident

Hours after TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra was allegedly manhandled by SFI supporters outside the Planning Commission office, TMC workers ransacked CPM offices in several districts of West Bengal later in the evening. Reports said that CPM offices in Bankura, Durgapur, Birbhum, Hoogly, Malda and Barrackpore were damaged by the TMC cadres. The Trinamool workers also blocked rail services at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas. NDTV also reported that the offices of the Students Federation of India (SFI) in Hooghly’s Sreerampore bore the brunt of Trinamool’s anger against the CPM. They also damaged the car of a former CPM leader that was parked there, the report said. [caption id=“attachment_692764” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  TMC workers have unleashed their own force attacking COM offices after Mamata Banerjee was allegedly heckled by SFI cadres in Delhi. PTI. [/caption] CPI-M leader Surjya Kanta Mishra said in Kolkata that several party offices were ransacked in the wake of the incident and expressed apprehension that more such attacks could follow. “We condemn the incident that happened in Delhi. I cannot fathom what kind of politics can lead to such an incident. Nobody is going to support such an incident,” former West Bengal chief minister and CPI-M politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said. State CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said: “We cannot support the undesirable incidents that happened in connection with the demonstration in Delhi. We unequivocally condemn it.“Demonstrations organised across the country in the wake of Gupta’s death have gone somewhat astray. We have to take proper lessons, Mishra added. According to the report, CPM’s district office at Siliguri was attacked. Not just that, the party workers also allegedly attacked a condolence meeting in Barrackpore for Sudipto Gupta, the 22-year-old SFI activist who died while protesting in Kolkata demanding student elections in college campuses, last week. The reports of the attacks came even as Mamata Banerjee cancelled her meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh citing health reasons. Sources said that a doctor was attending to her and her minister Amit Mitra, who was manhandled during the protests. Mitra was reportedly hit in the chest and had his clothes torn during the demonstration. (with inputs from IBNLive)