A Trinamul contestant, with his aides, allegedly attacked his daughter and her husband, a Congress candidate backed by the Left, at a Murshidabad village on Saturday night.

Zakaria Seikh, 50, a Trinamul nominee for a panchayat seat under Bhabta II block in Murshidabad's Beldanga, beat up daughter Rupali Parveen Begum and son-in-law Sirajul Haque, the young woman alleged.

“I'd never imagined my father would attack me with iron rods and bamboo sticks over politics,” an injured Rupali said from her hospital bed in Murshidabad.

Sirajul, pitted against Seikh, suffered minor injuries.

Rupali said she was campaigning with Sirajul and other party workers around 9pm when goons led by Seikh arrived and beat them up. "I saw my father leading the pack,” Rupali said.

Police have made six arrests so far.

KLO warns Trinamul leader

Cooch Behar: Jibon Singha, the self-styled chief of the Kamtapur Liberation Organisation, released a video on Sunday, accusing the Cooch Behar district president of the Trinamul Congress, Parthapratim Roy, of acting against the Rajbanshi community.

“The chief minister and Trinamul are against our principal demand of a separate state. Rajbanshis had faced atrocities of the Congress and Left governments. They had voted for Trinamul with the hope that their ordeal would end. But the present government, too, is working against the interests of Rajbanshis. Parthapratim Roy, who is from the same community, is acting as a stooge of this party and its Calcutta-based leaders. He should amend himself or the consequences would be dangerous,” Singha said in the video.

KLO is a banned terror outfit.

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