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Kolkata:
Two days after clashes during Ram Navami processions, the concern successful Murshidabad district’s Jangipur area is present peaceful, constabulary sources said. Prohibitory orders person been imposed nether Section 163 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita. Police officials said 31 people had been arrested and 21 were injured successful the clashes.
“The concern is present peaceful. We are analysing video and CCTV footage to identify more radical and apprehension them,” a elder constabulary authoritative told The Hindu on Sunday (March 29, 2026).
Clashes broke retired betwixt 2 groups connected March 27 during a Ram Navami rally in Jangipur’s Raghunathganj area. Tension gripped the locality arsenic the concern escalated quickly as stone pelting, arson, and vandalism incidents were reported. Security was tightened.
Ahead of the Assembly polls, the clashes astatine the rally led to heated speech betwixt the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) . Both West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Union Home Minister Amit Shah traded barbs a time after the violence rocked the northbound Bengal district.
“You [BJP] removed people [officers] nether me and orchestrated this riot. You should beryllium ashamed. You person looted shops, started arson... When 1 Shiv temple is broken, BJP does truthful overmuch drama. Breaking a temple is not right, I bash not enactment it. Who gave you the close to commencement a riot in Raghunathganj?” Ms. Banerjee said at a rally connected Saturday (March 28, 2026).
Mamata’s charge
During her campaign, Ms. Banerjee said radical should not blasted her for the unit that unfolded due to the fact that each constabulary officers had been changed by the Election Commission of India (ECI) and she arsenic an elected Chief Minister had been near with nary powers.
“I don’t cognize wherefore the medication is not taking action... BJP has cherry-picked officers,” the TMC supremo said astatine a rally in Pashchim Bardhaman’s Raniganj.
Mr. Shah deed backmost at Ms. Banerjee and said the fig of specified incidents had declined aft the ECI transferred definite officers under the Mamata Banerjee government.
“The transportation of officers whitethorn look excess successful Bengal due to the fact that many of them person go cadres of them [Mamata and TMC]. But specified transfers hap successful each poll-bound State,” Mr. Shah added.
The EC has transferred aggregate apical constabulary and administrative officers from crossed West Bengal aft the elections were declared connected March 15, and the Model Code of Conduct was imposed.
In the adjacent territory of Malda, viral visuals showed young men carrying daggers and agelong knives in a Ram Navami procession, though there were strict restrictions against carrying specified objects successful nationalist rallies.
Violence successful Ram Navami processions is not caller successful West Bengal. In 2024, determination was a crude weaponry detonation astatine the Shaktipur area successful Murshidabad territory during a Ram Navami procession. Prior to this successful 2023, unit broke retired successful Howrah’s Shibpur and Rishra in Hooghly and Dalkhola in northbound Bengal country during a Ram Navami procession.
