Kolkata (West Bengal) [India]September 13 (ANI): The Kolkata Police has detained Suvendu Adhikari and MP Locket Chatterjee, Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) protest march at the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ on Tuesday.
BJP leaders were detained from Hastings in Kolkata when they were leading the Nabanna Chalo campaign. The officer, Chatterjee and BJP leader Rahul Sinha were taken to the Kolkata Police Headquarters in Lalbazar.
Before the detention, the official said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had lost the support of the people and turned West Bengal into North Korea.
“Chief Minister Mamata does not have the support of her people and that is why she is implementing dictatorship like North Korea in Bengal. The police will have to pay the price for what they are doing since Monday. BJP is coming,” the official told ANI.
Kolkata Police has put up heavy barricading in Hastings near the new secretariat of the state government in Kolkata ahead of BJP’s Nabanna Chalo march.
Buses carrying BJP workers going to Kolkata to participate in the Nabanna Chalo march were stopped by the police in North 24 Parganas.
Earlier today, a clash broke out between BJP workers and police outside Raniganj railway station, as the workers left for Kolkata on Tuesday to take part in the Nabanna campaign.
In Raniganj, the police took several workers into preventive custody.
Further, a clash broke out between BJP workers and police inside Bolpur railway station as police prevented the workers from going to Kolkata to participate in the Nabanna Chalo march. Several activists were detained.
“Hundreds of BJP workers are marching towards Kolkata to join BJP’s Nabanna march via trains, with police blocking roads to railway stations. 20 of our workers were stopped by the police near Durgapur railway station. I reached here using other routes,” said BJP leader Abhijit Dutta.
Meanwhile, the police made heavy deployment of soldiers to stop the BJP’s Nabanna campaign. The borders of Kolkata have been closed amid tight security to prevent the procession. In view of BJP’s march in Howrah too, heavy barricading has been done.
Many roads of Kolkata have been closed by putting up barricades. To stop the procession, the West Bengal Police has converted a 5 km radius around Nabanna into a fort.
BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul said on Monday, ‘Preparations have been made for the Nabanna Chalo campaign. This is not just an opposition to the BJP, but a protest of all the people of Bengal. Mamata Banerjee will have to answer why her government has betrayed the people of Bengal. (ANI)
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