West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Mazumdar on Monday said that the party would hold a 72-hour long protest in the coming days demanding the arrest of Sheikh Shahjahan amid the turmoil in the state over the Sandeshkhali violence.
Earlier, on Wednesday, the BJP state president lost consciousness during a scuffle that broke out between security forces and party supporters while he was leading a sit-in protest against the prevailing situation in Sandeshkhali.
The Supreme Court has recently stayed the proceedings before the trial courts in connection with violence that erupted during the 2021 state assembly polls in West Bengal.
Former TMC MP and BJP leader Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday drew a parallel between the prevailing state of affairs in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali and the violence in Nandigram during the erstwhile Left Front regime in the state.
Union Minister Annapurna Devi has been named as the convenor of the high-level committee. Other members of the panel are Pratima Bhowmik, BJP MPs Sunita Duggal, Kavita Patidar, Sangeeta Yadav, and Brijlal.
In a recent incident in the Sandeshkhali region of West Bengal, agitated villagers set fire to the poultry farm belonging to Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shivprasad Hazra.
Launching a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee government over "large-scale violence" in West Bengal panchayat polls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has said that the civic polls were held peacefully in Uttar Pradesh and asked if Trinamool Congress “wants to make the country Wes
The committee reported that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her TMC party and "their alliance with criminal hooligans, biased administration, and colluding police created a conspiracy to ensure the victory of TMC."
Even as the two parties came together for the grand Opposition alliance against the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) at the Centre, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary on Sunday lashed out at the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal over the prevailing law and order situa
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Raman Singh on Saturday hit out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the purported video that showed two tribal women were stripped naked and tortured a few days ago in West Bengal while police remained a "mut