Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Amit Shah’s first ever mega road show in West Bengal capital city on Tuesday evening ended up with violence and criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property at gates of Calcutta University.
According to BJP said, “Trinomial Congress (TMC) workers removed posters and flags of saffron party from a stretch where Amit Shah’s parade was supposed to pass.”
Just two hours before rally in Kolkata city, a large number of cutouts and flexes of Shah, Modi and north Kolkata’s BJP candidate Rahul Sinha were removed from a long stretch of Lenin Sarani.
Violence resumed after the BJP supporters saw some students of north Kolkata’s Vidyasagar College, standing with “Go Back Amit Shah” posters. Motorcycles parked inside were dragged out and set on fire.
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A sculpture of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar educationist and social reformer on the premises was vandalized and several people were injured.
Later, Amit Shah had taken on Chief Minister that she was trying to protect her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who is contesting election this time from Diamond Harbour where he was supposed to visit.
He further said it’s an offer to restrain democracy and claimed that 60 BJP workers were killed during last the panchayat polls.
Road show-called the “Save Republic rally” had started around 4.30 pm from Esplanade in central Kolkata where Mr. Shah sporting a pink jacket, waved from roof of a crawling vehicle.
Mamata Banerjee mocked at BJP chief, saying, “Babu has done a michil (rally) in Kolkata with people from Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. But as he attacked heritage of Bengal. We will have our revenge.
