Amid the 12-hour-long Bengal bandh, workers of Trinamool Congress (TMC) reportedly fired at BJP leader Priyangu Pandey’s car in the Bhatpara area of North 24 Parganas in West Bengal.

The leader claimed that bombs were hurled at his car and then 6-7 rounds of bullets were fired. Pandey also mentioned that his driver had been shot at. “There are two people who are severely injured among the other seven,” he said.

“Today I was going to our leader Arjun Singh’s residence. We moved some distance and the road was blocked by a jetting machine from Bhatpara Municipality. The moment our car stopped, around 50-60 people targeted the vehicle. 7 to 8 bombs were thrown at my vehicle and then 6-7 round firing was done. This is a joint conspiracy of TMC and the Police. They planned my murder. The police supported and gave information. My security was withdrawn and then this incident happened,” he told ANI.

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Speaking about the incident, former BJP MP, Arjun Singh said that there was a plan to kill Priyangu Pandey.

“When the leaders of our party were coming, the road was blocked using a jetting machine and a bomb was thrown. Seven rounds of firing took place and all this was done in the presence of the ACP. There was a plan to kill Priyangu Pandey. Today the situation is such that those who threw the bomb play gambling outside the ACP office,” he said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a 12-hour Bengal bandh on Wednesday. The bandh was called against police crackdown on peaceful protests during the ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ march. TMC workers protested against BJP’s 12-hour ‘Bengal Bandh’ call and accused the BJP of trying to create anarchy in Bengal.

“We all want justice in the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case. Mamata Banerjee also wants justice…the case is now in CBI’s hands…One accused has been arrested…now the CBI is investigating the matter…They (BJP) are trying to create anarchy here, yesterday they attacked the police and today they have called this bandh…Everything is normal in Bengal…The people of West Bengal have rejected BJP’s bandh,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, ANI reported.

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The West Bengal police also detained protesting BJP party workers at Kolkata’s Bata Chowk.

On Tuesday, the rally termed “Nabanna Abhijan” started from College Square in the capital of West Bengal, amid heightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat with protestors gathering at the Santragachi area in Howrah.

Later, the police hosed protestors with water cannons as they climbed atop police barricades, clashed with police personnel and broke the barricades at Santragachi in Howrah during the protest march.

Protestors, seeking Mamata Banerjee’s resignation over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, dragged away police barricades while police resorted to opening lathi-charge and lobbying tear gas shells to disperse them.

(With inputs from ANI)