In the early hours of May 1, four CPI(M) workers were killed by Congress and the BJP in Darpatra village in South 24 Parganas district. The village had been the target of the Trinamul Congress previously too. In June last a CPI(M) worker was killed when a bomb was thrown at him. On May 3 the CPI(M) called a bandh in protest against the killings and life was virtually paralysed in Diamond Harbour area, with buses and other modes of transport taken out of roads. Shops and establishments were closed. Those killed in Darpatra, were the members of CPI(M). These CPI(M) workers had ensured the success of the party's candidates in the last panchayet election. The attack on them was pre-planned and they wanted to make it sure their services do not become available in the forthcoming elections. The people of Diamond Harbour, however, strongly recorded their protest against the murders observing the 12-hour bandh. Life was standstill from Kulpi to Sarisha, the two north and south points of the area brought under the purview of bandh. Police have arrested a dozen criminals believed to be involved in the gruesome murders at Darpatra. The South 24 Parganas CPI(M) Secretary alleged that the Trinamul Congress, Congress, BJP activists were after destroying peace by stepping up murders, arsons etc. but their game-plan would not succeed. The former MP of the party Samik Lahiri consoled villagers visiting the area. The party's leaders are confident that the evil designs of the Trinamul Congress, Congress and BJP would be frustrated in future.

Again on May 3 the Trinamul Congress goons killed Mujid Ali, a CPI(M) supporter at Sashan, close to Barasat in North 24 Parganas district. Mujid Ali, a brick kiln worker was on his way to his workplace in the morning, was accosted by some stated to be Trinamul supporters. They asked him to join a Trinamul Congress procession that was passing by then. Mujid Ali having rejected the proposal, the criminals brutally killed him. The next day, May 4 witnessed a 12-hour bandh in Sashan. The bandh was in protest against the murder of Mujid Ali. After the panchayet elections last year more than a hundred CPI(M) and other left party workers have been the target of attacks of the Trinamul Congress goons in the Sashan area itself. Several houses of the left party supporters have been vandalized, properties looted and cattle taken away by the vandals. Even women have not been spared. Many CPI(M) supporters have been forced out of their villages for failing to pay the fines imposed on them by the Trinamul Congress functionaries in their respective localities.

On May 3 night police arrested 11 persons in connection with the murder of Mujid Ali. It is however, surprising that among those arrested there are a few who are CPI(M) workers. The brother of the deceased Mujid Ali has alleged the person who had shot at Mujid Ali was still at large. The name of the criminal has been submitted to the police. He is a known Trinamul Congress activist. Villagers alleged that on the fateful night of May 3, the Trinamul Congress MLA of Barasat, Gopal Mukherjee, accompanied by the police visited the place of the incident and assaulted a CPI(M) leader, Sattar Ali. People are puzzled over the assault of Sattar Ali in the presence of the police. On the day of the bandh North 24 Parganas district CPI(M) leaders visited the site of the murder and exhorted villagers to be alert against the attempts to disturb peace by the criminals aided by the Trinamul Congress.

Again on May 3 and May 4 the Trinamul Congress - BJP vandals torched the Kusumda and Renjura villages in Block 2of Dantan in Midnapore district resulting in the gutting of 110 houses of the CPI(M) supporters. The majority of the affected villagers are poor Scheduled Caste tribals. They have lost whatever they had. Those who opposed the vandals were beaten up, thirty of them were injured too. Altogether 25 persons have been arrested. It is alleged that the police failed to arrive at the place of occurrence on time even though there is a police camp only a kilometre away.

The Secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of the CPI(M), Anil Biswas has said that the Trinamul Congress, BJP, Congress have started the polities of murder and terror. This would be countered politically.