Kolkata: Several BJP workers were injured after police resorted to lathi charge and water canons during the protest against TMC government on Thursday in Kolkata.
Clashes broke out between BJP workers and the West Bengal Police in Kolkata on Thursday. BJP workers tried to break through barricades during their march to Bengal secretariat ‘Nabanna’.
The protest was against the “worsening” law and order in the state and the repeated killings of the party workers.
#WATCH Howrah: BJP workers try to break police barricade put in place to stop the Party's 'Nabanna Chalo' agitation against the alleged killing of party workers in the state; police use tear gas to bring the situation under control.#WestBengal pic.twitter.com/ChQdi0NYXj
— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2020
Several BJP leaders, including BJP state vice- president Raju Banerjee and MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, have reportedly been injured.
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya claimed, “We are protesting democratically, but Mamata ji has tried to turn our peaceful demonstration into a violent protest. Goons along with police hurled stones at us.”
Police is lathi charging our people…Stone-pelting being done from Khidirpur side. Can't the police see that?: BJP leader Locket Chatterjee during BJP's 'Nabanna Chalo' agitation against the state government, in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/UtgACI8cLF
— ANI (@ANI) October 8, 2020
