The incident took place in Mandalpara, where the man fell by the roadside and was declared dead at the hospital.

Tapasi Mondal, who first won the Haldia seat on a CPM ticket in 2016, joined the BJP in December 2020 ahead of the West Bengal elections

Professors, including the vice-chancellor of the university, were harassed. The minister’s car was damaged, and his security guards were heckled, police said