Chased, BJP nominee runs for cover

Kolkata, May 12

Security personnel accompanying BJP candidate Bharati Ghosh — the friend-turned-foe of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee — had to resort to firing to chase away Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters hurling stones at her. 

Ghosh, whose constituency Ghatal went to poll today along with seven other constituencies in the sixth phase of polling in the state, had a scuffle with a group of women TMC supporters when she tried to escort her agent to a polling booth. 

The former police office fell down on the floor after being pushed by the women TMC supporters. Things took a more serious turn at the Keshpur bazar area which turned into a battlefield when hundreds of Trinamool supporters started throwing stones at Bharati Ghosh’s cavalcade.

Ghosh, who is taking on actor Deepak (Dev) Adhikari of the Trinamool Congress, took shelter in a temple. When the mob started throwing stones at the temple, she jumped a boundary wall and entered the local police station.  One of Ghosh’s PSOs received head injury from the stone pelting. —TNS