Summary:
The ‘rath Yatras’ were to cover all the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal. The BJP currently has two Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal --- Asansol and Darjeeling. According to the yatra schedule submitted by the BJP, there were plans to hold 158 meetings across West Bengal and the three segments of yatra would cover religious sites. The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal on Saturday refused permission for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s proposed Rath Yatra, citing intelligence reports of possible communal violence in areas where the party was planning to take out the yatra ahead of the Lok Sabha elections scheduled next year. There is a grave apprehension of major breach of peace...
during and after the yatra”, the state government said in the letter..