New Delhi: Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, was on Monday taken into custody while trying to go to Santragachi during a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) march to the state secretariat 'Nabanna'. Suvendu was trolled by the Trinamool for his comment to a woman policeman trying to control the protesters. "Don't touch my body. You are lady, I am male," Suvendu was heard shouting in a video that the Trinamool Congress shared on Twitter.
"I see Maa Durga in the eyes of every woman," Adhikari was heard saying in a video posted on Facebook by party MP Locket Chatterjee.
According to the information, BJP leaders and workers were taking out a protest march against the TMC government. During this, when the BJP leaders were stopped, they reportedly clashed with the police. After this, the police took Rahul Sinha into custody along with Suvendu Adhikari and BJP state general secretary Locket Chatterjee in Alipore.
BJP leaders took out 'Nabanna Rally' today in protest against the corrupt practices of TMC government. Hundreds of BJP workers reached Kolkata via trains to attend the rally. In view of the BJP rally, the state police barricaded the way to the railway stations.
Late on Monday evening, the state police had written a letter to the state BJP refusing to give them permission for the Nabanna campaign. After which now a war of words has started between the Mamata Banerjee government and the Bengal BJP.