BJP slams Mamata Govt over Beldanga communal violence

With internet shut down and prohibited orders issued in Murshidabad and Jangipur police districts following clashes between two communities over the weekend, the Bharatiya Janata Party kept up the pressure on the Mamata Banerjee Government for the violence.

- SUPROTIM MUKHERJEE

Tensions began in the late hours of November 16 following reports of an allegedly objectionable message written on a neon signboard at a Kartik Puja pandal in Beldanga, about 200 km from Kolkata. There was stone pelting, and shops and vehicles were attacked. Some people sustained injuries in the vandalism and arson.