CPI(M) to hold protest rally in Bengal's Kaliganj over death of girl in 'bomb explosion'

Kolkata, Jun 25 (PTI) The CPI(M) will on Saturday hold a protest rally in West Bengal’s Kaliganj over the death of a girl allegedly in a bomb explosion during the counting of votes in the bypoll to the assembly constituency, the party’s state secretary Mohammed Salim said.

Alleging that the Election Commission has not acted on complaints and apprehensions about violence during the bypoll process at Kaliganj, he said the EC “failed” to create an atmosphere for free and fair elections in the state.

Salim said the CPI(M) will hold a protest rally at Kaliganj and also in other parts of the state on Saturday over the incident.

The 13-year-old school student died on Monday in the Malandi village of Barochandgar area in Nadia district, after bombs were allegedly hurled during a Trinamool Congress victory celebration rally taken out even before the results of the Kaliganj assembly bypoll were officially announced.

The TMC won the seat with a huge margin of over 50,000 votes.

Speaking to reporters at the end of the West Bengal CPI(M)'s two-day state committee meeting, Salim said the party discussed "the deteriorating law and order situation in the state".

"Lawlessness prevails in the state, be it the RG Kar Medical College rape and murder of an on-duty doctor or that of Tamanna Khatun in Kaliganj," he said.

Salim accused the ruling TMC and the BJP of working together with the aim of obliterating secular and Marxist forces in the state.

The CPI(M) leader also demanded the arrest of all those named in the FIR in the death of Khatun in Kaliganj. PTI AMR RBT