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According to Dhubri district authorities, more than 2,000 victims of the political violence in Bengal have entered Assam.
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With a small piece of white cotton cloth draped around him and a little haystack in his hands, Meghu Das says the ghost of the fiercely fought Bengal elections has been haunting him since the results came out on May 2.
Presently, the 40-year-old is lodged at a refugee shelter in Assam’s Dhubri district.
Das, who hails from Jhaukuti village under Tufanganj constituency in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar district, has been observing Hindu death rituals after his mother passed away six days ago due to Covid.
BURNING BENGAL - THREAD
As if to reassert might of an abhorring demonocracy led by @MamataOfficial, persecution of innocent by @AITCofficial continue.21 people including an injured Dhiren Saha (45), facing threats of lives, arrived in Srirampur from Cooch Behar around 5 pm.
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) May 5, 2021
BJP leaders and supporters in Bengal have been alleging that many party workers have been killed, raped, assaulted brutally, and their houses set on fire across the state in post-poll violence.
They have accused TMC cadres of carrying out the attacks and alleged that police were not doing anything to provide them protection.