The BJP’s West Bengal president Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday was stopped for the second consecutive day from visiting the riot-hit areas of Hooghly district by the police citing prohibitory orders.
The BJP state president wrote a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the afternoon “pointing at the worsening law and order situation in the riot-hit areas” and sought his intervention into the matter.
Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC are in force in several places of Hooghly district where clashes broke out between two groups during a Ram Navami procession on Sunday. Two Ram Navami processions were organised in Rishra area, one of which was attacked near Wellington Jute Mill More on GT Road around 6.15 pm on Sunday, police said.
Majumdar, an MP from Balurghat in North Bengal, was on his way to Battala in the Serampore Lok Sabha area to attend a protest programme.
