Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumder detained amid protests against TMC

As hundreds of BJP workers are heading to Kolkata to join the ‘Nabanna March’, police detained BJP state president Sukanta Majumder from Howrah Maidan on Tuesday.

As hundreds of BJP workers are heading to Kolkata to join the ‘Nabanna March’, police detained BJP state president Sukanta Majumder from Howrah Maidan on Tuesday.

Majumder said to the media, "The ruling government is behaving undemocratically. The police have turned into the slaves of the ruling TMC party. Their degree is limited to following orders of the state government."

Recalling the death of two teens in Baguiati, he said, "Two young kids died and they (police) could not arrest the perpetrators. And now they have come to arrest the BJP workers."

Meanwhile, this afternoon, a police car was set on fire near a police station in central Kolkata’s Burrabazar area.

This comes on a day BJP workers clashed with the state police during a protest march against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). The police resorted to tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters marching to the state secretariat Nabanna, demonstrating against the alleged corruption of the ruling dispensation in the state.

Four BJP workers were arrested on their way to the march from the Panagarh Railway Station in the state’s West Burdwan district.