Nadia (West Bengal) [India], June 23 (ANI): A 13-year-old girl was tragically killed in a bomb explosion during a Trinamool Congress (TMC) victory procession in the Kaliganj police station area of West Bengal’s Nadia district, following the party’s sweeping win in the Kaliganj Assembly bypoll.
The West Bengal police confirmed the incident in a post on X, stating that the young girl succumbed to her injuries from the explosion. “Today, a 13-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries sustained from an explosion in the Kaliganj PS area of Krishnanagar police district. We shall spare no stone unturned to nab the culprits who were behind the incident. Raids are on in full swing to arrest those responsible for this extremely unfortunate death,” the police stated.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed deep sorrow over the incident and directed law enforcement to take swift and strict action against those responsible. “I am shocked and deeply saddened at the death of a young girl in an explosion at Barochandgar in Krishnanagar police district. My prayers and thoughts are with the family in their hour of grief. Police shall take strong and decisive legal action against the culprits at the earliest,” Banerjee posted on X.
The explosion occurred during celebrations following TMC candidate Alifa Ahmed’s resounding victory in the Kaliganj Assembly by-election. Ahmed defeated BJP’s Ashish Ghosh by a margin of 50,049 votes.
Amid the mourning and outrage, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar sharply criticized the state’s law and order situation, linking the violence to the political climate under Mamata Banerjee’s leadership. “Only in Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal can an election celebration look like a terrorist attack,” he posted on X.
“Yes, bombs. Not speeches, not sweets — bombs were thrown in the name of ‘victory’ in a bypoll! A minor girl was blown to death even before counting ended in Kaliganj,” he wrote. Majumdar went on to label the TMC as a “criminal syndicate in power” and referred to Mamata Banerjee as the “patron saint of blood and fear.”
“How brutal, how sick, how inhuman do you have to be to throw bombs while kids are on the street?” he asked, condemning the violence and calling for accountability. (ANI)
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