The State Election Commission on Thursday sought a report from the Birbhum district magistrate and SP on controversial comments made by district Trinamool Congress president Anubrata Mondal to allegedly attack the police with bombs and set ablaze the houses of independents.
"We have asked the DM and SP of Birbhum district to submit a report on the Anubrata Mondal's purported remarks," State Election Commissioner Mira Pandey told PTI in Kolkata. Meanwhile, an Independent candidate in the panchayat elections Rabilal Soren was allegedly kidnapped and his house set on fire last night at Gopalpur village near Kasba under Bolpur subdivision in Birbhum district, police said.
The candidate's wife, Radhi Soren, claimed that the house was set on fire at midnight on Wednesday night and her husband, a TMC supported Independent candidate, kidnapped. A complaint was filed at the Panrui police station in this regard. TMC MP Satabdi Roy sought to distance the party from Mondal's comment.
"I think that it is personal opinion and not of the party. I can never support such comments of throwing bombs on the police and setting fire to houses (of independent candidates)," she said. She said that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee would take a decision on it.
Meanwhile, the state unit of BJP, in a letter to the SEC, demanded Mondal's arrest. However, Mondal during a press-meet in Bolpur at the party office during the day, said, "I did not intend to ask partymen to hurl bombs on the police. It was a slip of the tongue."
Mondal, who had allegedly made the comments in Kasba village in Bolpur sub-division on Wednesday, denied involvement of his party in the kidnap and setting ablaze the house of the Independent candidate.
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