BJP WB President Sukanta Majumder calls for a '12-hour bandh' in the state on Wednesday
Aug 27, 2024
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], August 27 : Following the chaos that gripped the streets of Kolkata amid the Nabanna Abhijan" protest rally in the state capital on Tuesday, Union Minister and BJP West Bengal President Sukanta Majumder called for a '12-hour bandh' in the state on Wednesday.
According to Majumder, the bandh was called in opposition to the "violence on the student agitation" during the protest march earlier Tuesday.
Earlier today, a march to West Bengal Secretariat 'Nabanna' was organised by the 'Paschim Banga Chatra Samaj' and other organisations, which aimed to protest the recent rape and murder of a woman trainee doctor in Kolkata.
Speaking to ANI while protesting in front of the Kolkata Police Headquarters in the Lal Bazar area, Majumder said, "The police and Mamata Banerjee have unleashed violence on the student agitation. They have lathi-charged, used tear gas and used water cannons on the democratic, peaceful protest. So in opposition to this, we have called for a 12-hour bandh in Bengal tomorrow."
He further demanded the release of the students who were arrested by the police during the "Nabanna Abhiyan."
Earlier today, chaos broke out in the streets of Kolkata. Security personnel lobbed tear gas shells, used water cannons and resorted to lathicharge to disperse protestors on the Howrah Bridge marching towards the West Bengal State Secretariat Nabanna, amidst the row over the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case.
Protestors gathered at the Howrah Bridge, climbing atop police barricades and clashed with police personnel during the 'Nabanna Abhijan' protest march. They were seen breaking and dragging away the barricades that were erected in the Santragachi area, en route to the Secretariat.
The TMC has blamed the BJP alleging that the party had orchestrated the chaos.
"BJP's idea of a 'peaceful protest': Pelt stones and push barricades Severely injure the police Orchestrate extreme chaos and disrupt the law & order of the state The 'Nabanna Abhiyan' conspired by BJP is nothing short of a fatal attack on Bengal," the TMC posted on its official X handle.
The protests on Tuesday followed the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in the seminar hall of the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on August 9.
