Overview
- Police say masked men on a motorcycle opened fire in Halisahar and fired three rounds, with one hitting Prosenjit Maulik in the stomach and two striking his phone.
- Maulik, a Trinamool Congress worker also known as Raja, is in critical condition at Kalyani JNM Hospital.
- Officers launched a probe and are searching for the bike-borne attackers, with extra forces deployed in the area.
- Trinamool leaders blamed the BJP for the attack, and BJP candidate Sudipta Das denied it and pointed to possible Trinamool infighting.
- The shooting occurred on the last day of campaigning before the second and final phase of West Bengal Assembly voting across 142 constituencies, with counting scheduled for May 4.