BJP workers clash with cops during protest march in Kolkata
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Parts of West Bengal in India turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as BJP activists clashed with the police during a protest march to the state secretariat.
Several police officers and saffron camp members, including leaders Mina Devi Purohit and Swapan Dasgupta, were reportedly injured in the melee, PTI reports.
Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, the party’s Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and senior leader Rahul Sinha were among those detained during the march, taken out by the saffron party to protest against the TMC regime’s alleged corrupt practices.
The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the agitators, who tried to go past the barricades that were put in place at several points in the city and its adjoining areas.
“Everyone got to see how the partisan police tried scuttling a leader of opposition’s democratic right to protest outside Nabanna. I was manhandled by a woman constable, people saw that too,” Adhikari told reporters before being whisked away in a prison van.
In Santragachhi, the police were pelted with stones as they chased away the protesters.
A police kiosk was damaged as the demonstrators were stopped from moving forward.
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