A day after Kolkata violence, Mamata Banerjee holds roadshow
Kolkata, May 15 (IBNS): A day after BJP chief Amit Shah's roadshow turned violent, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is participating in a roadshow which is taking place on the same route in Kolkata on Wednesday.
CM Mamata Banerjee paid floral tribute at Gandhi Bhavan in Beleghata ahead of her roadshow.
During the violence in Kolkata on Tuesday, TMC alleged that BJP workers destroyed a statue of Vidyasagar in a North Kolkata college.
Accusing West Bengal's ruling party of hatching a conspiracy against the saffron outfit, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Amit Shah on Wednesday said the Trinamool Congress goons have actually vandalised the bust of Bengali's iconic social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar to win the "lost" Lok Sabha polls.
. @MamataOfficial pays floral tribute at Gandhi Bhavan in Beleghata ahead of her padayatra pic.twitter.com/Xn3ONUlpqP
— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) May 15, 2019
Shah at a press conference said: "We were outside the Vidyasagar college and the gate of the college was intact. Then who vandalised the bust? It was a conspiracy by Trinamool and vandalised the bust. Who broke the locks of the college? How could BJP workers get the keys of the college room. All these prove that Trinamool goons vandalised the bust to win the lost battle."
The bust was kept in a glass showcase in the premises of Vidyasagar College. Prior to the vandalisation, a scuffle between the BJP and Trinamool supporters broke out outside Calcutta University in north Kolkata through which Shah's roadshow was passing.
Shah also said no other state, where BJP is fighting several opposition parties, is witnessing such violence.
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"No violence in other states but only Bengal which means Trinamool is the reason behind it. If BJP was the reason then violence would have taken place in all other states," said he.
The developments occurred just days before Kolkata will join the remaining part of India to exercise their franchise in the final phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
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