PTI, KOLKATA: Clashes broke out in several districts in West Bengal today between the TMC activists and opposition parties in continuing political violence during the filing of nominations for the May panchayat polls, police said, even as nearly 2,000 people have been held in the state.
The Congress alleged that ruling Trinamool Congress workers attacked a rally led by state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury in Murshidabad district, while bombs were hurled in Birbhum district following a clash between BJP and TMC workers.
In Purulia, septuagenarian CPI(M) leader and nine-time MP Basudeb Acharia was assaulted allegedly by TMC supporters near the block development office at Kashipur yesterday, CPI(M) sources said today. Acharia was accompanying CPI(M) candidates who were on their way to file nominations at the BDO office for the panchayat polls.
He was later admitted to Purulia sadar hospital with abdominal injuries, hospital sources said.
