CHANDANNAGAR (WB): Three BJP activists including its Hooghly district youth wing chief Suresh Shaw have been arrested for allegedly raising ‘goli maro…’ (shoot the traitors) slogan at a roadshow of party leader Suvendu Adhikari here, police said on Thursday.
Some BJP activists had allegedly raised the slogan at a party programme in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Wednesday, following which the district police registered a suo motu case and arrested them late at night, an officer said.
The three arrested persons were produced before the Chandannagar Sub-divisional Court, which remanded them to judicial custody till January 30.
BJP activists, on the other hand, demonstrated in front of the Chandannagar Police Commissionerate demanding the immediate release of the arrested persons.
The accused activists, who were trailing the truck carrying Adhikari along with Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta, had allegedly raised the slogan holding BJP flags and the Tricolour in Rathtala area here.
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said that the party does not endorse the slogan raised by the participants holding the BJP flag. (AGENCIES)
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