<p class="bodytext">A Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor was shot at near her residence in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Champa Das, the councillor of ward number 2 of the North Barrackpore Municipality, was shot in the leg, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened in the Ichapore area in the evening and triggered a panic, the police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Das was first taken to a private hospital in Barrackpore and later, shifted to Kolkata for better treatment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police said a probe was underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Das had won the election as an Independent but joined the Trinamool Congress in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Trinamool Congress alleged that the opposition was behind the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She is very popular in her area. Those behind the incident must be arrested. For the last one year, the opposition has been trying to create a reign of terror in the area," TMC district president and senior minister Jyotipriyo Mullick said.</p>
<p class="bodytext">A Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor was shot at near her residence in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday, police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Champa Das, the councillor of ward number 2 of the North Barrackpore Municipality, was shot in the leg, they said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The incident happened in the Ichapore area in the evening and triggered a panic, the police said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Das was first taken to a private hospital in Barrackpore and later, shifted to Kolkata for better treatment.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The police said a probe was underway.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Das had won the election as an Independent but joined the Trinamool Congress in 2019.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Trinamool Congress alleged that the opposition was behind the incident.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"She is very popular in her area. Those behind the incident must be arrested. For the last one year, the opposition has been trying to create a reign of terror in the area," TMC district president and senior minister Jyotipriyo Mullick said.</p>