Kolkata Police filing false cases against BJP workers

BJP rally in Kolkata turns violent, several injured leaders faces arrest
Mamata blames BJP for violence during 'March to Lalbazar'
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27 May, 2017

Mr. Vijayvargiya targeted Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajiv Kumar and said that the party would go to court over the developments. The police had to resort to lathich-arge and fire some rounds of teargas shells and even charge water canon to quell the agitators.

Three days after over 20 city-based journalists were beaten up by police while covering the Left parties' protest march to state secretariat - Nabanna, the city police on Thursday arranged special jackets for media persons so that they could be identified among the crowd during a similar event organised by the BJP. However, even before the march formally started, a group of BJP workers surprised the police by suddenly arriving near Lalbazar in a private bus.

Being from Madhya Pradesh, where leaders in the opposition are usually released a few minutes after their arrest, Vijayvargiya had no idea how tough chief minister Mamata Banerjee could get on the BJP especially after some of her ministers and MPs have been arrested and sent to jail in the Sharda scam.

He also dismissed the allegation that police vehicles were damaged by BJP workers.

Leaders such BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and Rajya Sabha MP Roopa Ganguly spent the night in police custody. Several reports claim that many police vehicles have been torched and that one policeman's head has also been split open in the ongoing violence. Is this the way to treat political leaders and activists.

"The police had even entered the BJP office and beaten up the party workers which was unprecedented", he alleged and claimed almost 200 BJP men were injured in police action. "A petrol bomb was thrown infront of Tea Board, the shell of which has been recovered by us", Mr Sarkar said. Amid all this chaos, actress-turned-politicians Rupa Ganguly and Locket Chatterjee fell ill while struggling with police personnel. But they were immediately intercepted and detained. Drones kept a tab on the movement of protestors.

"Why was such a huge police deployment made to stop us?" she wanted to know.

Thursday's protest came only three days after the Left peasant unions" "March to Nabanna' (state secretariat) that had left almost 200 people - protesters and police - injured. Today, BJP Bengal workers have aggressively protested against the sitting TMC government.


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