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Majhi in hospital on Friday. Picture by Pradip Sanyal
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Calcutta, Feb. 22: A labourer and member of a Citu-affiliated union who had skipped work during Wednesday’s strike was hit in the left eye by alleged Trinamul activists in South 24-Parganas yesterday with doctors fearing he may lose of vision.
Gopal Majhi, a resident of Mashamari, has been admitted to Calcutta National Medical College and Hospital and has undergone a surgery.
“The incision is more than an inch. Some nerves have been damaged. We have done a repair surgery, but we are not sure how much vision will be left,” a doctor said.
Majhi said he and other labourers, who were allegedly threatened with dire consequences by Trinamul workers for skipping work on the strike day, had brought out a rally protesting the ruling party’s “terror in the area”.
“A group of Trinamul workers started beating us with rods. One of them hit me in the eye with his fist. Two other labourers were injured,” Majhi said.
Local Trinamul MLA Jogaranjan Halder said Trinamul workers were not involved. “The CPM is cooking up stories to malign us before the panchayat polls,” he said.
Aloke Rajoria, the additional superintendent of police (west), said a probe had been initiated. No arrests were reported till late in the evening.
Sujan Chakraborty, district secretary of CPM, condemned the attack, saying “Trinamul is out to finish our party workers. In Murshidabad, they cut off someone’s ear and in Kulpi they have damaged an eye of a brick kiln worker.”
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