BJP cries foul as police quell violence at Bangladeshi mission in Kolkata

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The Leader of the Opposition successful  the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, protesting adjacent   the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission successful  Kolkata.

The Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, protesting adjacent the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission successful Kolkata. | Photo Credit: PTI

Demonstrations extracurricular the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission successful Kolkata turned convulsive connected Tuesday (December 23, 2025) arsenic protestors tried to breach barricades, and constabulary utilized unit to forestall them. Several radical were injured successful the constabulary action, protesters claimed. This is the second time of protests astatine the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission office in Kolkata, implicit the lynching of Bangladeshi Hindu younker Dipu Das.

The protestation march titled Hindu Hunkar Padayatra was organised nether the banner of Bongiyo Hindu Jagaran. The march started from the Sealdah country of the metropolis and proceeded towards the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission bureau successful the Beckbagan area. A immense constabulary unit has been deployed adjacent the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission bureau which tried to forestall the assemblage which comprised youths and men draped successful saffron from advancing. The protesters shouted Hindu Hindu Bhai Bhai, and “safety for Hindus successful Bangladesh”.

Leader of Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, held a property league and said that the constabulary enactment against the protesters proved that determination is nary quality betwixt Mamata Banerjee’s authorities and Mohammad Yunus’s authorities successful Bangladesh.

In a societal media post, the BJP person shared videos of injured protesters and “over a twelve injured, countless arrested, each for daring to beryllium Hindu successful our ain homeland.”

Unleashed hell

“They (the police) unleashed hell. Barricades smashed, lathis swung similar swords connected defenceless protesters, women and elders dragged similar criminals into situation vans, and humor spilled connected Kolkata’s streets... Chaos reigned, and the Mamata Police, nether orders from the ‘Appeasement Queen’ herself, who seems to beryllium a well-wisher of the Yunus Regime, declared this peaceful and righteous protestation illegal.” Mr. Adhikari said. The LOP has called for protests astatine the Bangladesh borderline aboriginal this month.

Ever since unit erupted successful Bangladesh, the West Bengal BJP enactment has been trying to gully a parallel betwixt the concern successful Bangladesh and West Bengal. The BJP has raised its transportation aft the lynching of Hindu younker Dipu Das and has compared it with the communal unit successful Murshidabad.

Well known histrion and BJP person Mithun Chakraborty connected Monday released a video connection saying, “We volition not let West Bengal to go Bangladesh!”

Published - December 24, 2025 12:12 americium IST

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