Fearing more casualties, CPI(M) state leaders have urged their central leadership to raise the issue of political violence in Bengal at the national level.
“These incidents are results of CPI(M) infighting. If a party remains in power for 32 years, such incidents are bound to happen,” said Subrata Mukherjee, a senior Wet Bengal Pradesh Congress leader and LS candidate from Bankura.
“The communists are trying to make us a scapegoat for their own internal killings,” said Parth Chatterjee, a Trinamool leader.