Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said Indian Muslims need not worry about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by the Election Commission
Protesters reportedly raised black flags, shouted slogans against him, and damaged one of the vehicles in his convoy.
Adhikari, who was leading a 'Kanya Suraksha Yatra' last week , told mediapersons that the TMC administration was aiding and abetting infiltrators from across Bangladesh to settle in the state at the cost of national security.
Adhikari said the ongoing unrest in parts of Murshidabad, including Suti, Dhulian, Jangipur and Shamsherganj, highlighted the state government's inability to protect citizens and maintain peace.
At least three people have been killed and 150 arrested after violence broke out in Murshidabad on Friday over the new Waqf Act.
Adhikari is a BJP MLA from Nandigram, which had seen a prolonged anti-land acquisition movement by the Trinamool Congress in 2007 during the Left Front rule.
The Bengal Police, however, quickly dismissed Adhikari's claims, stating that the students were not missing but had been arrested for allegedly plotting violence during the rally.
Adhikari, addressing an extended session of the BJP's state executive committee on Wednesday, attributed the party's poor performance in West Bengal's Lok Sabha polls to insufficient support from the minority community.
Adhikari introduced a new slogan, "Jo hamare saath, hum unke saath," for the party to advance after its setbacks in the Lok Sabha election and subsequent by-polls.
The meeting lasted for around 16 minutes.
Leading a delegation of the West Bengal BJP unit, party leader Suvendu Adhikari expressed dissapointment with the poll panel's failure to address the issue despite assurances.
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BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul, accompanying Adhikari, claimed that the police officer wasn't fulfilling his duties, but dismissed the allegation that BJP supporters called him a 'Khalistani'.
LoP Adhikari went to the state secretariat on a day when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party MPs were in New Delhi where she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding the release of dues to the state.
The apex court has asked the high court to reconsider the case after analysing the reports of the West Bengal police on the action taken in the case
"We have talked about the CAA several times. The Citizenship Amendment Act will be rolled out in the state. If you have guts, stop it from being enforced," the Nandigram MLA said in an apparent reference to the chief minister.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said the ruling party in West Bengal will never allow the CAA to come into force in the state.
The scheme to provide 5 kg of wheat and rice free of cost to 80 crore poor every month, which was ending on Friday, will now run through December 31.
Suvendu Adhikari, a senior BJP leader, asserted on Monday that the TMC-led dispensation in Bengal will also fall, and much sooner than its term is up, as the political crisis in Maharashtra continues, with several rebel MLAs of the ruling Shiv Sena camping in Assam
TMC members are suspects in all the cases and the state police are mute spectators. We think Article 356 should be imposed in the state immediately," Adhikari said.
In 2021, Narayan Debnath was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest civilian award in India. Earlier in 2013, he was also awarded Banga Bibhushan and the Sahitya Academy Award.
Alleging that in certain booths, the number of votes secured by the BJP was less than that of the voters in the families of saffron party leaders and workers, Adhikari wondered how this had happened.
Subhabrata Chakraborty allegedly shot himself dead in a police barrack in Purba Medinipur's Contai in 2018.
Suvendu Adhikari also prayed for an order of quashing of FIRs registered against him by the state police. The BJP MLA filed the writ petition on Thursday seeking transfer of the criminal cases against him to the CBI for an "impartial investigation".