Nandigram: Trinamool Congress supporters on Friday protested at Khejuri police station near Nadigram demanding release of their activists held on the charge of ransacking Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) party offices in East Midnapore district even as police seized fresh arms from the troubled area.
"The 14 people who were arrested yesterday on the charges of ransacking and arson would not be released. The police have set up camps in the area," District Magistrate of East Midnapore, D Choten Lama said.
Local Trinamool leaders protested at Khejuri police station where their activists were lodged and demanded they should be released, alleging that police had "worked under the dictates of CPI-M leaders and arrested them".
Police, meanwhile, seized two guns and several rounds of ammunition from a house near the residence of a CPI-M panchayat pradhan, Pranabesh Das, in Kamarda.
Two pistols and several bullets were also found from a house near a CPI-M party office in Janka, police said.
"Police have set up camps at Jahanabad, Kamarda, Kalagachia and Battala. They have been patrolling the areas in Khejuri and the situation is under control," DM Lama said.
Trinamool MP Subhendu Adhikari described the violence as "an expression of people's pent-up anger".
"CPI-M leaders have been stockpiling arms and ammunition in the party offices and the residences of party leaders," he alleged.
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