A BJP worker has been arrested for allegedly stocking arms and ammunition at a guard house inside a fishery in the Munshigheri area of North 24-Parganas.

Police sources said two pipe guns, 10 rounds of cartridges and six crude bombs were seized during the raid early on Wednesday morning.

After the seizure, the accused booth-level BJP worker, Himangshu Sardar, a resident of Gopalpur-Munshigheri area, was arrested from his house. Later, Sardar, 34, was produced at the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court in Basirhat and remanded in police custody for five days.

“We have information that goons have plans to unleash violence in the area during voting on April 17. We have also come to know that the arms were being stocked in the deserted fishery on the instruction of a BJP worker,” said an officer of Haroa police.

Local Trinamul leader Hafiz Ahmed said: “The BJP has no support base in the area and wants to terrorise people so that they do not step out to vote. The police have foiled their heinous motive.”

However, BJP candidate Rajendra Saha refuted the allegations. “The police have acted on the directions of the ruling party. Trinamul is afraid of losing ground, so with the help of the police it planted the arms and implicated our party worker in false cases only to malign the BJP.”

Rivals clash

Three BJP workers were injured when suspected Trinamul supporters attacked a rally in the Dhuturdaha area of Minakhan on Wednesday.

BJP candidate Joyanta Mondal has lodged a police complaint alleging that Trinamul workers assaulted BJP supporters with bamboo poles and iron rods.

In Baranagar, BJP supporters were beaten up and party candidate Parno Mitra was heckled during a campaign allegedly by suspected Trinamul supporters on Wednesday afternoon.

Later, BJP supporters blocked BT Road for about an hour seeking arrest of the culprits.

“There was no provocation from our end. But local Trinamul leaders got women to attack our boys with sticks and shoes. Police were mute spectators when the attack took place,” Mitra said.

Trinamul candidate and former minister Tapas Roy refuted the allegations. “She has realised she will lose and is now staging a drama to draw compassion from the people.”