The Bharatiya Janata Party has called for a Bengal bandh on Wednesday, August 28, after clashes between protesters and Kolkata Police during a ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ rally on August 27. The bandh will be effective from 8 am to 8 pm on August 28.
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- The BJP called for a 12-hour abandh fter police lathi-charged, and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the protestors attempting to reach ‘Nabanna’ on August 27.
- Chaos descended as protestors and police clashed in Kolkata and Union Minister on August 27.
- The protesters demanded West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resignation over the horrific rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
- Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari alleged that over 160 protestors, including 17 women, suffered injuries in the police action.
- The protestors dragged away barricades, to which police responded with lathi charges and tear gas to disperse the crowd.
- West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumder said August 28 bandh was called against the “violence on the student agitation” during the protest march.
- The West Bengal government has urged people not to respond to the bandh. “The government will not allow any bandh on Wednesday. We urge people not to participate in it. All steps shall be taken to ensure that normal life is unaffected,” said Alapan Bandopadhyay, the chief advisor to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
- The state government issued a notification stating that all government offices would remain open and all employees, except those facing exigencies or are on leave, would have to report for duty on August 28 or face show-cause for their unauthorised absence.
