BJP too calls strike, TMC says unholy nexus

Addressing the gathering, BJP president Rahul Sinha said: “The Trinamool Congress and SEC have murdered democracy. We have called a 12-hour general strike on April 30. We will also appeal to the Congress call a bandh to express its solidarity.” Sinha added that emergency and train services will be exempted from the strike.

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The BJP supporters entered into a scuffle with the police near the SEC office where a barricade had been put up. Senior leaders sat on the street and raised slogans demanding the resignation of State Election Commissioner Susanta Ranjan Upadhaya.

The CITU, INTUC and six Left-backed trade unions have also jointly called a 24-hour general strike in the state on April 30.

Meanwhile, Trinamool on Monday said the April 30 strike called by Left Front and BJP proved the existence of a “unholy nexus” between the two and warned that people will give a befitting reply to any attempt at disturbing peace.

Party secretary general Partha Chatterjee said: So far, the secret pact between CPM and BJP was kept under wraps… Now, the cat was out of the bag with BJP supporting the CPM bandh on April 30.” He also mocked at the BJP for asking the Congress to call the bandh.

When contacted, State Congress president Adhir Chiowdhury said: “We have neither called a strike nor are we extending any support to it.”