BHARAT KATHA BUREAU

GOBARDANGA: Fierce clash broke out at Lakshmipur village in Gobardanga police station area between villagers and police after a land for building a temple and hospital was forcibly occupied for opening a Madrasa department office.

Villagers said the villagers became furious on Monday after seeing a Madasa department board hanging on a newly constructed building on three bigha land in the area.

The land was donated by a widow Nirmala Das who did not have any child. Das who died had donated her land to village panchyat during the Left regime for temple and hospital 22 years ago.

The local TMC took control of the area two years ago and started constructing a building. Villagers thought that there would be a hospital as wished by the owner of the land Nirmala Das. ” We thought villagers will get job if there is a hospital,” they said.

The locals became angry by seeing that a Madrasa department board hanging on the building instead of hospital and temple.

They started ransacking the building. The police from Gobardanga rushed to the spot and a clash broke out after the villagers attacked the police . RAF was deployed to control the situation. Tear gas shells were lobbed to disperse the angry mob. A strong police picket has been posted in the area to avoid further clash.

Devdutta Maji – President of grassroot Hindu Organization, Singha Bahini said, Muslim appeasement is nothing new in West Bengal, but Mamata Banerjee’s shameless Muslim appeasement has crossed all limits. Politicians must understand that Hindus are no more naive. We Hindus will reply aptly to any insult on our Dharma.

Local BJP leader Satyajit Mullick said that the appeasement politics of a particular community by the ruling TMC is exposed now. ” The people of Bengal will give fitting reply in EVM in coming elections. We have nothing to do with the incident.”

TMC North 24 parganas district President Jyotipriya Mullick said, BJP and CPIM were involved in the attack.