Summary:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has called for a 12-hour bandh on Saturday in Barrackpore from 6 am to 6 pm, to protest against the attack on its MP Arjun Singh. Both Shyamnagar and Kankinara come under the Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency, of which Singh is the MP. He also said that the ruling party was using force to capture BJP party offices at various places in Barrackpore constituency, a charge denied by the Trinamool Congress. West Bengal Food and Supplies minister Jyotipriya Mallick asserted that it was the saffron party which had forcibly taken over the TMC’s party offices in Barrackpore. “Arjun Singh should remember what his people had done to take over our party offices..