{"id":303255,"date":"2018-09-26T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303255"},"modified":"2018-09-26T05:53:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T05:53:31","slug":"west-bengal-bandh-bjp-trinamool-men-clash-govt-deploys-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-bandh-bjp-trinamool-men-clash-govt-deploys-police\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Bandh: BJP, Trinamool men clash, Govt deploys police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-bandh-bjp-trinamool-men-clash-govt-deploys-police\/wb-bandh\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303256\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-303256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh-634x420.jpg 634w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/wb-bandh.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><\/a>The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a 12-hour bandh on Wednesday in West Bengal (WB), protesting the death of two youth at North Dinajpur&#8217;s Islampur on September 20.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The WB police are out in full force in capital Kolkata and other sensitive districts, as many as 4000 police personnel have been deployed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protesters in West Bengal\u00a0vandalised\u00a0private buses in Howrah&#8217;s Tikiapara area and clashes between the Trinamool and BJP supporters have been reported in Barasat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Government buses have been\u00a0vandalised\u00a0in Cooch Behar and Midnapore and the drivers of the buses were seen wearing helmets while driving to keep themselves safe from the protests by BJP workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, the Trinamool government warned that strict action will be taken against those trying to enforce the 12-hour bandh today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Party general secretary and state education minister Partha Chatterjee accused the BJP of trying to incite trouble in the state and said all steps will be taken to ensure normal life is not affected. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chatterjee on Tuesday had asked schools and colleges to remain open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two students were killed on Friday after protesters clashed with the police in Islampur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports\u00a0say,\u00a0the clashes erupted over protests over the appointment of Urdu teachers in a local government school.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has called a 12-hour bandh on Wednesday in West Bengal (WB), protesting the death of two youth at North Dinajpur&#8217;s Islampur on September 20. The WB police are out in full force in capital Kolkata and other sensitive districts, as many as 4000 police personnel have been deployed. Protesters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[5220,453,5219,5221,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303258,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303255\/revisions\/303258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}