Shoes hurled at vehicles of Vijayvargiya, Mukul Roy
The incident comes less than a month after BJP national president JP Nadda's convoy was attacked with stones near Diamond Harbour.
BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya (Express Photo/File) Shoes were hurled at the vehicles of BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy on Monday when they had gone for a roadshow in Kolkata’s Watganj area. The roadshow, which was scheduled to be held from Orphanganj Road to the state BJP headquarters in central Kolkata, had to be shortened after police denied permission for it.
The roadshow was led by BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy and MP Arjun Singh. Interestingly, BJP’s new Kolkata zone observer and former city mayor Sovan Chatterjee and his aide Baisakhi Banerjee gave the event a miss.
As soon as the procession crossed Watganj area, shoes and stones were hurled from a makeshift stage where a programme of the ruling Trinamool Congress was being held. However, heavy police deployment in the area prevented the incident from getting escalated.
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