All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from West Bengal’s Sagardighi constituency, Bayron Biswas, who joined Ritabrata Banerjee-led Democratic Trinamool Congress (DTC) after the party split, was injured after a fire broke out at his residence in Murshidabad on Saturday morning, police said.
No other family members were injured. Black smoke could be seen billowing out of his house. Police and the fire brigade were unsure how the fire started or how he sustained injuries.
Preliminary investigation by the police revealed that the fire broke out around 11 am.
He sustained burn injuries and had to be rushed to a nursing home in Dhuliyan,” an officer from the Samserganj police station said. “A fire broke out in Biswas’ residence in Dhuliyan on Saturday morning.
He was rushed to a local nursing home, run by his family. The workers rushed upstairs and rescued him, following which he was rushed to the nursing home..
He sustained burn injuries to the lower portion of his body, according to locals. He is likely to be shifted to the Murshidabad Medical College and Hospital, his family members told the media. His family members said that his condition was stable. Officers, requesting anonymity, said that when the fire broke out in his room, labourers were working in the beedi factory run by his family on the building’s ground floor.
