Before getting into the police car on Friday, Dr Majumdar said, “I don’t know why we were detained. This doesn’t happen anywhere in the world.”Earlier in the day, a face-off between BJP Yuva Morcha activists and Kolkata Police occurred in Bhowanipur outside the residence of Jan Sangh founding member Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.BJP workers had assembled there to pay their respects to the leader and then planned to proceed to nearby Netaji Bhavan, the residence of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. Later, a small team of BJP workers led by Dr Majumdar reached Bose’s residence on two-wheelers and garlanded the leader’s bust outside the house.For the past two years, a political slugfest has continued between the Trinamool Congress-led West Bengal government and the main opposition party, the BJP, over the observance of ‘Pashchimbanga Divas’, the statehood day.While the West Bengal government has identified Poila Baisakh, the Bengali New Year’s Day, for celebrating ‘Pashchimbanga Divas’, the state BJP has, on the basis of a central notification, earmarked June 20 for the observance.On June 20, 1947, the Legislative Assembly of then undivided Bengal voted in favour of the partition of the state between East and West Bengal, which paved the way for the creation of India and Pakistan.
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