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CPI(M) and Trinamool Congress supporters engaged in heated arguments with one another when their processions came face-to-face during filing of nominations in Kolkata on Thursday.

 

The incident took place when the supporters of the archrival parties went to Alipore District Collector Office for filing of nominations by five Left Front candidates and one TMC nominee for the Lok Sabha polls.

 

Supporters of the two parties engaged in heated arguments and sloganeering but a large posse of police personnel stood as a barrier between them, preventing the situation from escalating, an official said.

 

Five Left Front candidates, including four of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and TMC nominee Mala Roy on Thursday submitted their nomination papers for the Lok Sabha elections.

 

Nominations were filed by CPI(M)’s Saira Shah Halim for Kolkata Dakshin seat, Srijan Bhattacharya for Jadavpur, Pratikur Rahaman for Diamond Harbour, Sarat Chandra Halder for Mathurapur and RSP candidate Samarendranath Mondal for Jaynagar constituency.

 

They arrived at the collector’s office in a procession from Hazra Crossing, about a kilometre away, for submitting the documents.

 

TMC nominee and sitting MP of Kolkata Dakshin seat, Mala Roy, also filed her nomination papers.

 

Supporters of the two parties engaged in heated arguments and sloganeering but a large posse of police personnel stood as a barrier between them, preventing the situation from escalating, an official said.

 

Halim, the CPI(M) candidate from the prestigious Kolkata Dakshin constituency, went to the residence of former chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya and took his blessings after filing her nomination papers.