{"id":327352,"date":"2020-10-08T09:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327352"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T09:50:37","slug":"west-bengal-clashes-erupts-during-bjps-nabanna-chalo-march-to-secretariat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-clashes-erupts-during-bjps-nabanna-chalo-march-to-secretariat\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: Clashes erupts during BJP&#8217;s &#8216;Nabanna Chalo&#8217; march to Secretariat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327354 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/clashes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/clashes-1.jpg 767w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/clashes-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/clashes-1-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/clashes-1-696x428.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/clashes-1-683x420.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/>Clashes broke out on Thursday between BJP workers and the West Bengal Police in Howrah district of state after the Bharatiya Janata Party workers tried to break through barricades during their march towards Nabanna, the West Bengal Secretariat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several BJP workers began marching towards Nabanna to protest against the law and order problems in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a bid to stop the march, the Bengal police resorted to lathi-charge, used tear gas and water cannons on BJP workers at Santragachi in Howrah district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The West Bengal government had announced that all the offices in the building will stay shut for two days (today and tomorrow) for sanitization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha national president Tejasvi Surya led the march.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is what fascism looks like! Country bombs hurled at our rally by TMC goons from rooftops. Tear gas and water canons launched against a peaceful march. The tyrant\u2019s time is coming to an end,\u201d Surya tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are protesting democratically, but Mamata Ji has tried to turn our peaceful demonstration into a violent protest,\u201d BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes broke out on Thursday between BJP workers and the West Bengal Police in Howrah district of state after the Bharatiya Janata Party workers tried to break through barricades during their march towards Nabanna, the West Bengal Secretariat. Several BJP workers began marching towards Nabanna to protest against the law and order problems in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[453,13564,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327352"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327355,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327352\/revisions\/327355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}