A group of BJP workers, carrying party flags, were heard raising the slogan on the way to the Shahid Minar ground during Shah’s day-long visit.
Kolkata| Three workers of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been arrested after a complaint was registered at New Market Police Station against them for raising incendiary ‘desh ke ghaddaron ko…’ slogans in Esplanade area in Kolkata.
The BJP workers shouted the slogan while they were passing the Maidan Market in Esplanade on their way to a rally of Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. However, the West Bengal BJP has denied the involvement of any party worker in the incident and termed it as the “handiwork of the TMC (Trinamool Congress)”.
An FIR was registered against Surendra Kumar Tiwari, 55, Dhruba Basu, 71 and Pankaj Prasad late in the night at the New Market police station in West Bengal’s Capital city.
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According to a PTI report, the BJP supporters, who were shouting aggressive slogans, came close to the Congress and Left Front members who chanted “Go Back Amit Shah”, but a showdown was averted after police personnel posted nearby intervened and took control of the situation.
The arrest was made after police went through the CCTV footage of the rally. All three were picked up from their houses on early Monday morning and booked under Sections 505, 506, 34 and 153A of the IPC. “Yes, three persons were arrested and today they will be produced before a city court,” said Murlidhar Sharma, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime).
Reacting to the move, State BJP president, Dilip Ghosh, accused the Mamata Banerjee led TMC government in the state of harassing the members of his party.
However, another saffron party leader Shamik Bhattacharya said, “We don’t support such slogans.”
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