Pro-CAA rally in Kolkata: Police detain BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy
Kolkata/IBNS: Several BJP leaders, who included state party in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy, were detained by the police in Kolkata on Friday.
They were participating in a pro- Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in the city.
The rally was being held in Tollygunge area of the city.
Sources told India Today that the BJP leaders were taken into custody as they didn’t have permission to hold the rally.
The new citizenship law was passed by the Centre last year.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her TMC have opposed the CAA.
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