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Warning of stern action against communal incitements, the chief minister claimed the BJP was provoking violence after failing to win the elections.

In the city's Beliaghata area, clashes broke out between two groups of people, following which the police resorted to mild lathicharge to disperse them.

Security measures have been heightened in view of the violence in the previous phases, particularly the death of five people in Cooch Behar in the fourth round of polling.

Kailash Vijayvargiya, BJP Gen Secy stated that the party intends to implement the CAA and provide rights to refugees who fled religious persecution in neighbouring countries and moved to India.

West Bengal CM says it is a total violation of code of conduct of elections

"We are being called 'tourists', fun is being made of us, we are being insulted. Didi, people of Rabindranath's Bengal don't consider anybody outsider," Modi added.

The Northeast Delhi MP, who hails from Bihar, said leaders from the state should stop treating its people as their vote bank in other states.

The terms of the legislative assemblies of the four states is coming to an end in May and June.

"Bengal has made up its mind for poriborton and the BJP will bring 'aashol poriborton' (real change) in the state," Modi told a large gathering at the Dunlop Estate Village

Maidul Islam Midda, a resident of Kotulpur in Bankura district, was critically injured and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in south Kolkata.

Vidyakansha, a non-profit organisation, aims at leveraging technology to provide quality education to rural children

Left cadre blocked railway tracks and roads in Malda, Barddhaman, Raiganj, Asansol, Dankuni and parts of Kolkata, North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts during the bandh that began at 6 am.

The three arrested persons will be produced at a court during the day.

Stones were hurled at BJP national president J P Nadda's convoy during his visit to Diamond Harbour area in South 24 Parganas on December 10.

In Kolkata, CPI(M) activists along with SFI and DYFI members blocked roads in Lake Town, College Street, Jadavpur and Shyambazar Five-Point Crossing.

Bandh enforcers also blocked roads in Coochbehar and Jhargram districts, burning tyres and breaking the windscreen of buses.

Preliminary investigation has found that a technical fault in a heavy machine inside the factory caused the high- intensity blast.