TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Life was limping back to normalcy in the communal violence-hit areas of West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district as paramilitary forces marched on the streets, and internet and WI-FI services remained suspended in the affected pockets on Thursday.
There were no reports of violence from Baduria, Banstala and Tetulia — the worst affected areas in Basirhat sub-division, where some roadside shops opened and public transport commenced plying. Train services on the Sealdah-Basirhat line, which were disrupted over the past two days due to blockades, also normalised, a railway spokesman said.
However, a clash broke out between supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP-RSS activists outside a government-run hospital here following the death of an injured patient from Basirhat earlier in the day.
Later in the day, a mob surrounded the cars of state BJP president Dilip Ghosh and party’s national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and demanded they go back from the place.
Claiming the agitators were “Trinamool backed hooligans”, Ghosh said they were being forcibly stopped from meeting the deceased’s family and some of their activists were “severely beaten up”.
