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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Monday (February 9, 2026) staged a protestation successful Barrackpore successful West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, demanding superior punishment for a Trinamul Congress councillor arrested connected the complaint of assaulting an 80-year-old man, starring to his death.
The Opposition enactment alleged that Rabindra Nath Bhattacharya, a councillor of North Barrackpore Municipality and besides a lawyer, has been getting “VIP treatment” successful constabulary custody.
BJP workers, led by erstwhile MP Arjun Singh and Barrackpore organisational territory BJP president Tapas Ghosh, marched from Mahatma Gandhi’s statue astatine Chiria More and reached adjacent the Barrackpore court. They breached constabulary barricades and staged a sit-in protestation for immoderate time, blocking postulation and triggering heated arguments and scuffles with constabulary personnel.
Mr. Bhattacharya was arrested aft helium allegedly thrashed Tulsi Adhikari for protesting against an amerciable operation successful beforehand of his location connected February 7, 2026. Mr. Adhikari collapsed and was declared dormant astatine a infirmary successful Barrackpore Cantonment, constabulary said.
The Trinamul suspended Mr. Bhattacharya from the enactment for six years pursuing his arrest. Trinamool’s Barrackpore MP Partha Bhowmick said the enactment has adopted a “zero-tolerance” stance successful the matter.
“The councillor has been suspended for six years from the party. The constabulary volition instrumentality their ain people of action. The enactment volition not shield anyone progressive successful specified an act,” Mr. Bhowmick said.
Mr. Bhattacharya had earlier dismissed the allegations arsenic “baseless and politically motivated”, claiming that helium was attacked.
During the protest, BJP leaders alleged that the accused was being fixed preferential attraction successful custody and demanded exemplary punishment. “We are protesting the VIP attraction fixed by the constabulary to the slayer councillor,” Mr. Singh said.
“We are lifting the sit-in for the involvement of students appearing for the Madhyamik (Class 10 State board) examinations. But erstwhile the exams are over, we volition motorboat a larger law-breaking question if justness is not delivered,” helium said.
