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Tensions prevailed successful the Suryanagar Gram Panchayat successful West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas implicit the desecration of an idol connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) morning, with the West Bengal portion of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleging “Trinamool State’s administrative indifference” successful the look of nationalist protests.
Protests erupted successful the Kakdwip region, with agitating locals blocking the nationalist highway.
“The concern has turned communal, truthful we person to wait,” a elder constabulary serviceman told The Hindu today, adding that efforts are connected to place the miscreants down the act.
“The locals had blocked the nationalist road implicit the contented on with the damaged idol and refused to spell up with the immersion. Police persuaded with the agitators for hours to retreat the blockade which was causing superior nationalist [inconvenience] with ambulances carrying patients besides being stuck,” the West Bengal Police stated connected societal media.
They added that erstwhile the agitators allegedly started pelting stones astatine the police, “minimum unit was resorted to” by the constabulary to disperse the mob.
“The immersion of the idol was facilitated thereafter,” the Police’s connection further said.
Meanwhile, leaders of the West Bengal BJP made superior allegations astir the desecration of the idol, demanding contiguous arrests and a probe into “administrative negligence.”
“In the aboriginal morning, villagers discovered that the idol of Maa Kali had been vandalised — the aforesaid temple wherever for years the villagers person offered worship and recovered solace has present been desecrated by miscreants. But what is adjacent much shameful is the relation of the administration,” BJP State President Samik Bhattacharya said connected societal media.
