Several BJP, TMC workers dead, offices torched in post-poll violence in Bengal; Centre seeks report| 10 points
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The Centre sought a report from the West Bengal government on post-poll violence in the state. Political workers were allegedly targeted by opponents since the announcement of results for the Bengal Assembly where the ruling Trinamool Congress emerged victorious. The BJP has claimed several of its party workers have been killed and over 4,000 houses ransacked in incidents of post-poll violence.
West Bengal was in the grip of violence on Monday that allegedly left several dead and injured in clashes, barely a day after the result of the hotly contested state assembly poll was declared. Mamata Banerjee Goons Attack ABVP Office in KolkataPress Release Link: https://t.co/cZMWwyyDMS pic.twitter.com/oIMsOeFPuo BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, the party's in-charge for Bengal, said its four workers were killed and over 4,000 houses ransacked in incidents of post-poll violence. A clash had broken out between the TMC and the BJP in West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district after the election results were announced, an official said on Monday. Similar reports of violence were received from multiple parts of the state. Multiple reports of post-poll violence and arson from various parts of West Bengal on Monday prompted the Union home ministry to seek a report from the Bengal government on incidents of attack on opposition workers.
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