Bengal polls Encounter specialist's visit triggers 'Singham versus Pushpa' duel

Kolkata: A 'Singham' versus 'Pushpa' rivalry played retired astatine Falta, astir 40km from Kolkata, connected Tuesday.The stage, it seems, was acceptable connected Monday, erstwhile IPS serviceman and DIG Ajay Pal Sharma, an "encounter specialist" popularly known arsenic 'Singham' connected his location turf successful UP, visited the location of Falta's TMC campaigner Jahangir Khan, a strongman, and warned his kin "to beryllium cautious".On Tuesday, the 2 astir crossed paths. As Jahangir's convoy passed by, TMC workers raised slogans of "Joy Bangla" and "Go Back", possibly having spotted the UP cop. Jahangir excessively appeared defiant. "If helium is Singham, I americium Pushpa. Jhukega nahi. In 'Sholay', we saw 'Jo darr gaya, woh mar gaya'. In my dictionary, the connection 'fear' does not exist," helium thundered.Meanwhile, TMC MP Mahua Moitra shared archived videos connected X showing a antheral grooving to euphony astatine what appeared to beryllium a nightclub.

She tagged the officer, calling him a "Fair and Lovely babua". "Good to spot you enjoying yourself... Hope your policing skills are amended than your dancing skills," she wrote.While a BJP idiosyncratic said the station "speaks of her taste", Sharma refused to comment.Quite a fewer videos of the serviceman doing the rounds and announcing stern warnings against mischief-mongering person been circulating connected societal media. Tuesday morning, helium was seen successful a neighbourhood adjacent Jahangir's enactment office.

He was backmost successful the country again aboriginal successful the day.Jahangir said the serviceman was acting supra the law. "He threatened my colleagues and my family. Is this the work of a constabulary observer? There is nary EC regularisation that says a constabulary perceiver tin spell and endanger radical astatine their houses."A local, Monalisa Patra Das, has lodged a ailment against Sharma for allegedly intimidating women.BJP's Debjit Sarkar said EC would determine if Sharma's actions were close oregon wrong. Poll sheet officials, though, played down the incident.(With inputs from Kaushik Pradhan and Subrata Chattoraj successful Kolkata)