Kolkata Police has detained BJP leaders Suvendu Adhikari, Rahul Sinha and MP Locket Chatterjee

Kolkata Police has detained BJP leaders or Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, Rahul Sinha and MP Locket Chatterjee from Hastings in Kolkata and taken to Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar.

About Nabanna Chalo

Recently large amount of cash was recovered in West Bengal. In July 2022, Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a search operation at six locations over an alleged case of mobile gaming application called E-Nuggets. The ED recovered approx. Rs 50 crore cash, gold, property documents and foreign currencies from the then West Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee's aide Arpita Chatterjee. Moreover, Rs 17 crore cash was recovered from a businessman named Amir Khan in the Garden Reach area of Kolkata. This gave an opportunity to the BJP which is the main opposition party in West Bengal, to raise the issue.

Therefore, the BJP decided to launch a the 'Nabanna Abhijan', a march to secretariat, to protest against alleged corrupt practices of the present government in the West Bengal.

Opposition (BJP) Charges

“The TMC government is scared of public uprising. Even if they try stop our protest march, we will resist peacefully. The state administration will be responsible for any untoward development,” Ghosh asserted.

BJP leader Rahul Sinha, meanwhile, accused the Mamata Banerjee government of trying to forcibly stop the “democratic protest”.

“Our supporters were prevented from boarding a special train from Alipurduar to Sealdah on Monday evening and even lathi-charged by the state police. The train left later with our activists and supporters,” Sinha said.

West Bengal Govt Clarification

TMC spokesperson Joy Prakash Majumdar said the BJP is attempting to create disturbance in the city for its “narrow, partisan politics”. “We urge everyone not to fall in their trap,” he said.

State urban development & municipal affairs minister and Kolkata mayor, Firhad Hakim said that the leaders of the opposition are resorting to such theatrics, understanding that their party has no mass base in West Bengal. “In BJP, there are only leaders and no workers. So, a party without any worker can never generate mass support. BJP is a worthless party which is surviving just by using some central agencies,” Hakim said.