Kolkata: With less than 48 hours to go for polling in West Bengal's Bongaon (SC) Lok Sabha seat in the fifth phase, its BJP candidate Shantanu Thakur on Saturday met with an accident at Hanskhali in Nadia district, police said.
Shantanu Thakur, the grandson of the Matua community matriarch late Binapani Devi, his driver and two others were in the vehicle and sustained injuries, the police said. Thakur sustained a head injury and was rushed to the Bongaon sub-divisional hospital.
The accident happened at around 12.15 pm when a police van lost control and hit Thakur's vehicle at the front when he was heading towards Kalyani to attend an election rally on the last day of campaigning, the police said. BJP Kailash Vijayvargiya was scheduled to speak at the rally.
None was arrested in connection with the accident and the police vehicle was allegedly damaged by BJP workers.
A West Bengal Police officer said, "We are trying to find out what actually happened and whose fault it was. We are talking to drivers of both the vehicles. So far nobody has
been arrested".
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