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Munda, Akbar visit Pundibari

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Press Trust of India Cooch Behar (WB)
Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda and BJP MP M J Akbar today visited Pundibari in Cooch Behar district and said that the BJP would launch a big movement in the state after a clash between BJP and Trinamool Congress here recently.

Munda alleged that at least 40 houses of BJP activists were ransacked in an attack by the ruling party workers following the death of a Trinamool Congress worker.

Accusing the TMC of plotting false cases against BJP leaders, he said though the TMC supporter's death was due to its intra-party squabble, after the murder TMC men ransacked 40 houses.
 

Munda also alleged that the administration is running on TMC diktat and said the BJP was on the side of its supporters in Pundibari.

"We are not going to place demands any more, we would launch a big movement in West Bengal against the ploy of the TMC," he added.

Akbar alleged the ruling party and its supremo were suffering from fear psychosis.

"No one can win through hooliganism," he said.

Former state BJP president Rahul Sinha and other senior leaders of Cooch Behar were also part of the delegation.

The situation had been tense iat Pundibari ever since a TMC supporter Narayan Mahanayak was shot dead on November 29.

Police suspected that he was killed following dispute over railway contract work.

Following the incident 40 residences of local BJP leaders and supporters were looted and ransacked on December 6.

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First Published: Dec 19 2015 | 11:48 PM IST

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