Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari and party workers staged a dharna outside the Raj Bhavan here on Sunday against alleged post-poll clashes in the state.
Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and other BJP leaders like Tapas Roy, Rudranil Ghosh and others participated in the protest along with 300 saffron party workers.
The Calcutta High Court had allowed the BJP to stage a dharna outside the Raj Bhavan on July 14 for four hours starting from 10 am.
Adhikari had moved the high court seeking permission to hold the protest outside the Raj Bhavan citing an instance that Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had staged a similar protest at the same spot on October five last year.
Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, had moved the court to seek permission for a dharna in front of the Raj Bhawan over post-poll violence in the state.
Suvendu Adhikari had written a letter to the Kolkata Police seeking permission for a sit-in protest along with the alleged victims of the post-poll violence near the Raj Bhavan on June 19.
Citing the example of when TMC workers staged a protest there in October last year, he said, "If you can allow a regional party to hold a political program at the venue, then I can see no reason why the BJP, a national party recognised by the Election Commission of India, can't be given the same permission."
Last month, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose slammed the Trinamool Congress government over instances of post-poll violence, saying that a "dance of death" was taking place in some pockets of the state.
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