00:00Okay, let's get you now. Information and visuals coming in of what's happening in Mushridabad.
00:08We understand that now there's been an incident of violence against the Bengal BJP candidate Shubendu Sarkar has been beaten
00:16up by TNC workers.
00:18Allegedly, he is the candidate in Kumar Ganj.
00:21The BJP candidate had alleged that boot tampering was taking place and so after he made that allegation, he was
00:29targeted, he was beaten up allegedly by TNC workers.
00:35You can see the sequence that we're playing out for you right now where angry mob is questioning him, targeting
00:42him.
00:43It quickly turned unruly. Let's play out for you this whole sequence.
01:17Okay, so this is the sequence where you can see people
01:21confronting the BJP candidate over his allegations of boot and that's the moment.
01:26That's the moment that he is assaulted by the unruly mob.
01:31They're allegedly TNC workers but you can see on your screens how they then start pushing and thrashing him, targeting
01:39and attacking him.
01:40Why? Because he alleged boot jamming.
01:43You can see the BJP candidate running for his life right after unbelievable scenes.
01:49These unbelievable look at how one of the locals then grabs him and everyone comes together and starts beating him
01:56up.
01:56There's one police official, one police official to protect him struggling as a crowd of 10 to 20 people, one
02:05after another, start targeting the BJP candidate.
02:08Unbelievable images, this is happening on polling day in Bengal, simply unacceptable and something like this has happened in Murshidabad.
02:17Incidents of violence, it's escalating.
02:20Anirban, what exactly happened here?
02:22The BJP candidate reportedly alleged that there was boot tampering and after that, scenes of violence, he was rescued by
02:29one cop there.
02:32Well, see, the Kumarganj Assembly constituency, BJP candidate, went to Sharkar, who was in the boot visit today during the
02:43election.
02:44He was visiting many boots and well, in one of the boots, he has alleged that there is a reading
02:50and jamming is happening.
02:54And after that, what happened, he was being, and also he was thrashed by a few of the people.
03:06But what we have, what we have learned that the police and central forces were there, but police, police was
03:13also tackled by a few of the goons.
03:15But the central forces have came there and they tried to control the situation over there.
03:22It's similarly what we have seen in other folks also in the violence, the incident of violence.
03:30Okay, Anirban, I'm going to reconnect with you. We're having a bit of a problem with your audio.
03:33I just want to play out for our viewers that sequence once again of exactly what happens.
03:38You see the BJP candidate, Shubindu Sarkar, walking with one police official.
03:43A mob then starts confronting him right outside the booth where he alleged that there was boot jamming.
03:49These are allegedly TMC supporters, but we're going to wait for an official TMC and police version before we actually
03:56go ahead and call them that.
03:58These are allegedly TMC workers who are confronting the BJP candidate as he walks out of the polling booth in
04:05Kumarganj.
04:06You can see them. It's a heated confrontation.
04:09The police official is trying to control the situation and then it goes out of hand.
04:12One of them steps in and slaps him.
04:15Then one after another, they start gathering and start attacking the BJP candidate with no fear whatsoever of the law.
04:23You can see how each one of them starts approaching him.
04:26He gets off the road, runs into the field, trying to hope and, you know, running off, essentially running for
04:33his life with the police official.
04:34The one police official with him.
04:36And right after that, one man in the middle of that road grabs him.
04:39The rest of the mob catches up, attacks him non-stop.
04:43You can see them pulling him, slapping him, attacking him, doing everything they can, throwing punches at him.
04:49And the police official trying hard to secure him, very, very hard.
04:53And then finally, he literally runs for his life from that spot.
04:57Unbelievable that this is what's playing out.
04:59Let's play out for you the full sequence once again.
05:01This is in Kumar Ganj where the BJP candidate Shubhendu Sarkar alleged that there was boot jamming.
05:06So then he was attacked in this manner.
05:08We'll play out for you from the very beginning what happened.
05:11When he's actually walking out of the polling booth, you can see a mob one after another coming in and
05:16arguing with him.
05:17Arguing with the BJP candidate.
05:19Soon after, after that heated confrontation, this is the moment there.
05:23Where in fact he's talking to the group.
05:25He's got one police official with him and then one after another, they come in, they attack him non-stop.
05:31Things go out of hand.
05:32One slaps him, then the police official starts trying to control the situation.
05:36But it's extremely difficult looking at the fact that there's a mob that's gathered there,
05:40all hell-bent on attacking the BJP candidate.
05:44As he moves across there, he's attacked non-stop by the mob, manages to get away.
05:50I want to cut across live now to Prime Minister Mubis.
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