Violence Between BJP And TMC in Kolkata

BJP president Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata on Tuesday wound up in fierce conflicts between Trinamool Congress youth individuals and BJP cadre at College Street in the northern piece of the city.

The conflicts broke out close to the famous Presidency College and Calcutta University after 'black flags were waved' at Shah and stones were purportedly pelted at his escort from the lodgings of Vidyasagar College.

Amid the brutality that pursued, the horde vandalized the school lodging and broke the 200-year-old statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar.

TMC leaders asserted that the BJP had got 'outsiders' who harmed the college premises and broke the statue.

"The two parties had conflicted and a few people were harmed. We are as yet sitting tight for the rundown of the harmed. The college was vandalized and three bikes were determined to flame," said a senior police official.

The viciousness continued for some time still immense police unforeseen was sent to the spot and some senior heads mediated. Shah needed to cancel his roadshow and couldn't achieve the genealogical place of Swami Vivekananda.

Responding to the episode, Shah said that the general population of Bengal will react to such occurrences on May 19, the most recent day of surveying. "TMC laborers assaulted us and endeavored to attack the roadshow while the police stayed quiet onlookers," Shah claimed.

State's training pastor Partha Chatterjee, in any case, said the central priest has been stating for long that these individuals would instigate brutality. "See what they have done to the college — they don't comprehend what Vidyasagar intends to us. The severe move would be made."

The roadshow, which saw Shah travel a 5-km remove among central and north Kolkata, was gone to by a huge number of gathering laborers and supporters.