Bengal Politics
BJYM workers, police clash in West Bengal's Siliguri during Uttar Kanya march
Siliguri/Kolkata/IBNS: The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) workers and police clashed in West Bengal's Siliguri town on Monday as the saffron men were holding a march to the state's temporary north Bengal secretariat Uttar Kanya.
While the BJYM workers were seen breaking barricades to continue with the march, police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the mob.
The BJYM, the youth wing of the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is holding the march protesting against the Mamata Banerjee government's alleged misrule, unemployment and neglect in north Bengal.
One of the two rallies, which were held in Siliguri, was led by BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.
Slamming the Trinamool Congress over its alleged appeasement politics, BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya said, "The Prime Minister and Home Minister are outsiders but the Rohingyas (Rohingya refugees) are people of this soil to Mamata Banerjee."
Last month, the BJYM held a similar march to the state's secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.
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