BJP supporters stop Partha's car on Chittaranjan Avenue

Kolkata: BJP supporters tried to stop the car of state Education minister Partha Chatterjee on Chittaranjan Avenue when he was returning after attending a function at Bethune College on Wednesday.

Carrying flags, the protesters shouted slogans against the Trinamool Congress and tried to stop Chatterjee's vehicle. The policemen on duty and Chatterjee's security personnel chased them away.

Meanwhile, Rahul Sinha, national secretary of BJP has asked his party colleagues to carry lathis for self-defence.

Suvendu Adhikari, the state Transport minister, led a massive rally which was taken out to protest against ransacking of the TMC party office in Contai on Tuesday.

Adhikari said the BJP is spreading violence every where. After the meeting of Amit Shah ended on Tuesday, some BJP supporters attacked the Trinamool Congress office and set two motorcycles on fire. The windscreens of many cars were damaged too. Two TMC supporters who had sustained injuries have been shifted to Kolkata. The TMC will hold a meeting on the same spot where Amit Shah had held a rally on Tuesday. Adhikari alleged that BJP supporters had ransacked the TMC party office without any provocation. "The nervousness of the BJP has become palpable and violence is due to that." He also alleged that some CPI(M) cadres who have joined BJP were responsible for the violence that took place on Tuesday. Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee who was addressing the people at a meeting in Rampurhat also condemned the attack.