30 BJP workers arrested for trying to enter Kolkata Police headquarters

Kolkata March 7 (IANS) Thirty BJP workers were taken into custody when they tried to force their way into the Kolkata Police headquarters as part of a law violation programme organised by the party on Wednesday.

The agitation was called to protest against atrocities on women the "violence unleashed by West Bengal s ruling Trinamool Congress on opposition political workers the worsening law and order situation and police excesses".

With state Bharatiya Janata Party President Dilip Ghosh in the forefront a large number of BJP workers tried to march to Lalbazar in central Kolkata but the police stopped them by putting up barricades some distance away from the police headquarters.

However a handful of BJP cadres managed to sneak into Lalbazar and were arrested.

--IANS
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