The earliest protesters showed up in Panchla, Howrah, where they sat in a dharna with signage labelling BJP candidate Mohit Ghati as “characterless, drunkard”.
They were later joined by protesters from Howrah’s Udaynarayanpur and in the evening, a swarm of people came in from Raidighi in South 24 Parganas.
The building accommodating the BJP offices was barricaded by the police, but the crowd continued to jostle and surge forward, trying to pull the barricades down and force themselves into the building.
In Hooghly district later in the day, angry BJP workers ransacked the party office at Singur and the BJP’s headquarters at Chinsura district. Night visuals from Hooghly showed a group of people smashing windows and shouting in protest.
On Sunday, following sitting Trinamool MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya’s nomination, BJP workers locked the Madhya Pradesh education and health minister inside a shop in Singur, where he was meeting with party workers. He had to be rescued by the police…