India, April 11 -- Mohammed Mottakin Alam, Congress candidate for Manikchak assembly constituency in West Bengal allegedly attacked by miscreants during campaigning in the area, the party claimed on Sunday.

The vehicle of party MP Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury was also vandalised, who was accompanying Alam, it said.

The district Congress leadership alleged that Trinamool Congress supporters were behind the attack.

Manikchak goes to polls in the last phase of the assembly elections on April 29.

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