TMC-BJP face-off over Ganga Aarti at Baje Kadamtala Ghat

Jan 11, 2023

Kolkata, January 11 (ANI): All India Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are yet again at each other’s throats in TMC’s home turf. This time the issue at hand is BJP being denied permission to perform Ganga Aarti. The Kolkata Police on January 09 denied permission to the Bengal BJP to conduct Ganga Aarti the next day on the occasion of ‘Gangasagar Mela’ starting in West Bengal the same week. Kolkata Police cited traffic congestion in the carnival area. BJP, however, hell-bent on performing the holy ritual, assembled at a nearby Babughat's Baje Kadamtala ghat. This led to a scuffle between the police and the saffron party. The scuffle ended in BJP State President Sukanta Majumdar and others being detained by Police.