TMC leader beatan up in kalimpong

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders and activists were  allegedly attacked by Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) activists in  Kalimpong today.   

It  was learnt that the TMC Kalimpong unit led by its senior leader,  Chewang Bhutia and Bruno Lepcha, candidates of the TMC during the GTA  Sabha election in 2012 were organizing an indoor meeting in a house in  the gardens of Silver Oaks Hotel at Ringking Pong Road, Kalimpong this  afternoon when all of a sudden at around 1 PM a group of GJMM supporters  swooped down and attacked them ferociously.  Immediately,  after the intervention of police the mob dispersed bringing the  situation from spiraling further. In this stir several TMC activists  were injured in which their leader Chewang Bhutia have been reported to  be severely injured on the head and face hit by a wooden beam. They have  been rushed to the Kalimpong Sub Divisional Hospital for treatment.The  Kalimpong Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mrs. Songmeet Lepcha  said that during the attack the TMC supporters were holding an indoor  meeting when they were allegedly sieged by the GJMM supporters. She  further added that they had been informed about the imminent clash and  had reached the spot in time to control the skirmish from deteriorating  further. If we had not been informed the incident could have taken a  worse turn. In this incident two TMC leaders Chewang Bhutia and Bruno  Lepcha have been badly injured. Presently Bhutia has been referred to  the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital in Siliguri. The  Police also informed that the TMC have filed a FIR against the GJMM  Youth Wing President Barood Thapa and its Secretary Binay Ghisingh as  well as others. However later four of them has been arrested from damber  chowk . At  the same time keeping in mind the grave nature of the incident, huge  police personnel have been deployed in Kalimpong Town to monitor the  situation.The  Kalimpong GJMM leadership has objected to the allegation leveled at them  saying it is baseless and have instead condemned the attack.

By Mukesh Sharma