The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a 12-hour bandh in Bengal to protest the alleged violence by Trinamool Congress workers during yesterday\u2019s municipal polls. By afternoon, Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikary said at a public meeting that the \u201csuddenly called\u201d bandh is causing inconvenience to people and appealed to his party leadership to withdraw the bandh. At a meeting in East Midnapore\u2019s Nandigram at Tengua, Adhikari said that it is affecting people\u2019s work. He asked his party workers to withdraw blockades by 12 noon. The Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar meanwhile, said that Adhikari had said this \u201cto the media\u201d and \u201cnot to the party leadership\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf he brought it up before me, then it could have been discussed. Now, it is not possible,\u201d Sukanta Majumdar said.<\/p>\n
In Siliguri, Cooch Behar, Bankura, Howrah, Hooghly and several parts of Kolkata, there were protests by BJP workers who stopped buses, trains and held sit-ins on roads and highways.<\/p>\n
Civic polls were held in 108 municipal bodies on Sunday, and there were allegations by the Opposition of large-scale violence and \u201clooting of votes\u201d from across the state against workers of the ruling party. The BJP called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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