TMC workers protest against BJP’s ‘Bengal Bandh’ call, says, “State can’t be stopped by doing such things”

32North 24 Parganas (West Bengal) [India], August 28 (ANI): The Trinamool Congress party workers on Wednesday staged a protest against BJP’s 12-hour ‘Bengal Bandh’ call against police crackdown on peaceful protest during ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ – march.

Train services that were disrupted between Bangaon-Sealdah have also been now being reinstated.

Speaking on it, TMC leader Narayan Ghosh said, “They (BJP) want to make poor people suffer. They have come to West Bengal to do dacoity. Common and poor people are with Mamata Banerjee. West Bengal can’t be stopped by doing such things.”

BJP MLA Ashok Kirtania said, “Bandh is going on. Police were not able to do anything, therefore, the workers of TMC are here, and Mamata sent them. We will not move from here; we will continue the fight.”

At Bengal’s Alipurdaur, police also detained protesting BJP workers who were protesting against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led government.

On Tuesday, the rally termed “Nabanna Abhiyan” started from the College Square in the capital of West Bengal, amid heightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat with protestors gathering at the Santragachi area in Howrah.

Later, the police hosed protestors with water cannons as they climbed atop police barricades, clashed with police personnel and broke the barricades at Santragachi in Howrah during the protest march.

Protestors also dragged away police barricades and police resorted to opening lathi-charge and lobbing tear gas shells to disperse them.

Following the chaos, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) TMC said in a post on ]

“BJP’s idea of a ‘peaceful protest’,” in a social media post in X, which includes stone pelting, pushing barricades, severely injuring the police, orchestrating extreme chaos and disrupting the law and order of the state.

TMC further stated that the “Nabanna Abhiyan” was a conspiracy by the BJP and was “nothing short of a FATAL ATTACK on Bengal!”

Union Minister and BJP national president JP Nadda attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said that the TMC chief has crossed all limits of “cruelty and dictatorship” in Bengal.

All these came following the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at Kolkata’s R G Kar Medical College and Hospital premises, which sparked nationwide outrage and since then several protests have been staged demanding justice for the victim. The trainee doctor was found dead in the seminar hall on August 9.