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Lathicharge In Bengal Town As Protesting BJP Workers Attack Cops
A BJP protest meet in Bengal's Bashirhat ended in violence as alleged party workers clashed with the police, triggering a lathicharge. The protest, which the BJP dubbed "law violation programme", is against the state government's refusal to allow the party to hold Rath Yatra in the state. The BJP has approached the Supreme Court against the governm...
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Blog: I Covered The Bashirhat Riots. 'They Are Coming,' They Kept Saying
Trouble had erupted in Baduria, just three days before July 4, after a blasphemous social media post about the Prophet by a 17-year-old. The road from Kolkata leading up to Deganga was deserted, shops shuttered, unease in the air.
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Lathicharge In Bengal Town As Protesting BJP Workers Attack Cops
A BJP protest meet in Bengal's Bashirhat ended in violence as alleged party workers clashed with the police, triggering a lathicharge. The protest, which the BJP dubbed "law violation programme", is against the state government's refusal to allow the party to hold Rath Yatra in the state. The BJP has approached the Supreme Court against the governm...
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Blog: I Covered The Bashirhat Riots. 'They Are Coming,' They Kept Saying
Trouble had erupted in Baduria, just three days before July 4, after a blasphemous social media post about the Prophet by a 17-year-old. The road from Kolkata leading up to Deganga was deserted, shops shuttered, unease in the air.
