Kolkata, May 10: A Trinamool TMC councillor was arrested in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for allegedly obstructing the election campaign of Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury during the recent Assembly polls, a senior police officer said on Sunday.
Bhismadev Karmakar, councillor of Ward 19 in Berhampore municipality and district president of the TMC youth wing, was arrested on Saturday night in Baharampur, police said.
Karmakar allegedly stopped Chowdhury’s campaign on April 4.
Also, on Sunday, a body of man was found in Hooghly district, with the TMC claiming that he was a party panchayat member and alleging that the number of post-poll violence deaths of its workers in West Bengal went up to six. The TMC claimed the deceased was Sahadeb Bag, a member of Nokunda gram panchayat under Goghat 1 block.
The Goghat unit of the BJP said none of its workers was involved, and Bag was either killed due to personal enmity or by his own rival party faction. (PTI)
