24-Parganas district.
Trinamool won four seats in the 15-member Krishnachandrapur gram panchayat in Mathurapur area in the July 8 polls. The remaining 11 went to opposition — six to BJP, three to CPM and two to Independents. If BJP four join Trinamool, the latter will get a majority with a tally of eight.
All opposition members had left their village, allegedly after being pressured by TMC.
According to locals, four cars pulled up after 11pm at the building in Panchasayar on Kolkata’s EM Bypass where the four BJP members and others had been staying on rent since the past few weeks.
The car’s occupants barged into the flat and took the four BJP members away.
An Independent woman gram panchayat member hid on the roof and managed to elude the miscreants.
TMC leader Bapi Haldar called it “a baseless complaint”. “What can we do if someone is willing to join Trinamool?” Haldar said.