Vidyasagar bust vandalisation: Mamata Banerjee to hold protest rally today
Kolkata, May 15 (IBNS): Escalating her attack against the saffron party in the last leg of Lok Sabha polls, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday will hit the streets to protest against the vandalisation of Bengali's social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust at Vidyasagar College.
Banerjee, who heads the Trinamool Congress, will begin her protest rally from College Street in north Kolkata at around 4 pm.
A scuffle between the Bharatiya Janata Party and Trinamool supporters broke out outside Calcutta University in north Kolkata through which saffron party chief Amit Shah's roadshow was passing on Tuesday.
After the scuffle, bust of Bengali's social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalised inside Vidyasagar College located few miles away from Calcutta University. The BJP and Trinamool have been blaming each other for the incident.
While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool supremo, Mamata Banerjee, sharply attacked the saffron party, BJP national president Amit Shah on Wednesday said the ruling party hatched a conspiracy to win the Lok Sabha polls.
Shah at a press conference said: "We were outside the Vidyasagar college and the gate of the college was intact. Then who vandalised the bust? It was a conspiracy by Trinamool and vandalised the bust. Who broke the locks of the college? How could BJP workers get the keys of the college room. All these prove that Trinamool goons vandalised the bust to win the lost battle."
A First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against Shah.
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