KOLKATA: The three bodies brought by the Trinamool Congress to the city and taken out in a mourning procession were those of Congress supporters, Left Front Chairman Biman Bose said on Friday. “According to information we have received, they were supporters of the Congress. The Trinamool Congress brought them to the city by the sheer power of money and then paraded them in the streets,” Mr. Bose told journalists on the sidelines of a rally organised by student unions backed by four Left parties.
The mourning procession included the bodies of three persons who were allegedly killed by CPI(M) party workers in two separate incidents in Bardhaman district on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Trinamool Congress had taken out a similar procession on December 20 with the body of Sanatan Hembram, who according to the party was a supporter and had been killed by Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers in a village near Lalgarh in Paschim Medinipur district. The district police had said that the victim was actually a member of the Maoist-backed Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee.
There were apprehensions of a clash between students at the rally and supporters of the Trinamool Congress as the two venues of came within a hair's breath of one another.
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