Trinamul and BJP supporters confronted each other in Dinhata, Cooch Behar district, on Sunday, prompting police intervention before the matter snowballed.

Trouble started brewing recently after the BJP accused Udayan Guha, the Trinamul Dinhata MLA and north Bengal development minister, of threatening Nisith Pramanik, the BJP MP of Cooch Behar and Union minister of state for home affairs.

Guha’s purported threats to “pull out” Pramanik’s beard and moustache allegedly prompted Ajay Roy, a BJP leader of Dinhata town, to threaten Guha. Roy had allegedly assaulted Guha over one-and-a-half years ago.

On Sunday, a group of Trinamul supporters walked up to Roy’s home, burnt tyres and shouted slogans against him and the saffron camp.

Some BJP leaders, including district president Sukumar Roy and some MLAs, who were at Roy’s house, came out and shouted counter slogans.

As the situation heated up, Dinhata police persuaded both camps disperse.

Later, a Trinamul delegation went to the police station, demanding the police file a chargesheet of the case registered after Guha was attacked. Ajay Roy is a prime accused in the case.

“Police officers have informed us that the charge sheet will be submitted before the court soon. We want exemplary punishment of Ajay Roy who had attacked our leader,” Saha Choudhury, the Trinamul leader, said.