On September 13, some people chased ACP Debjit Chattopadhyay and attacked him with sticks in Baubazar area during BJP’s ‘March Se Nabanna’ rally.
On September 13, some people chased ACP Debjit Chattopadhyay and attacked him with sticks in Baubazar area during BJP’s ‘March Se Nabanna’ rally.
At least four people were arrested for assaulting a police officer and setting a police vehicle on fire during a BJP rally in Kolkata on September 14, an official said.
The arrests were made during overnight raids in Beliaghata, Topsia and Bobazar areas, he said.
On September 13, during the BJP’s ‘March Se Nabanna’ rally, some people chased Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Debjit Chattopadhyay and attacked him with sticks in Baubazar area.
A police vehicle was also torched near Kolkata Police Headquarters Lalbazar.
On the afternoon of September 14, a Kolkata Police official said, “The raids are still on.” He said the four arrested persons were identified from the video clips of the two incidents.
They have been booked under sections related to attempt to murder, damage to government property and preventing public servant from performing duty, the official said.
He said Mr Chattopadhyay suffered multiple fractures and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital.
BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said the attack was the work of TMC supporters who attended the rally.
“Our workers are being implicated and false allegations are being made against them,” he alleged.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra said what would happen if the West Bengal government followed the “model” of Uttar Pradesh and “sends bulldozers to the homes of BJP workers destroying public property”.
BJP chaotic under Mamata Banerjee-led government: BJP
Meanwhile, the BJP alleged that West Bengal has become a “lawless” and “bankrupt” state under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led government.
Responding to clashes after party workers were stopped from marching towards the secretariat in the state capital, the party on September 14 targeted Ms Banerjee for inflicting “police torture” on its members for suppressing their voices.
The BJP had taken out a protest march against the alleged corrupt practices of the ruling Trinamool Congress.
Former Union Minister and BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad has criticized the TMC supremo saying that she talks of saving democracy outside the state while crossing all limits to curb the democratic and civil rights of the people inside Bengal.
Suggesting that inter-party rivalry within the TMC may be behind the use of force against BJP members, he said the chief minister’s conduct has been “contrary” to his political development, his rise from the grassroots and the earlier Left rule. In view of the long struggle against .
Is there a succession battle going on in the TMC, he asked without naming the second most powerful leader in the regional party, alluding to alleged differences between the chief minister and his nephew Abhishek Banerjee.
Claiming that he has now left the Left behind and committed atrocities and brutality on the BJP, he claimed that the TMC could not stop his party’s march in the state.
“West Bengal has become a lawless and bankrupt state under Mamata Banerjee,” said Mr. Prasad.
Kolkata and parts of Howrah district turned into a battlefield on September 13 as BJP supporters tried to put up barricades past the West Bengal Secretariat to prevent them from marching towards ‘Nabanna’.
While the BJP alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government did not want to give space to opposition parties, the TMC called the saffron camp workers “goons”.