BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar was captured on Saturday evening when he attempted to visit brutality hit Howrah region, police said. Majumdar, the MP of Balurghat in Uttar Dinajpur, was captured close to the cost court on Vidyasagar Setu, they said.

BJP’s West Bengal unit president Sukanta Majumdar was captured on Saturday evening when he attempted to visit brutality hit Howrah region, police said. Majumdar, the MP of Balurghat in Uttar Dinajpur, was captured close to the cost court on Vidyasagar Setu, they said. “Mr Majumdar was attempting to head out to Howrah where prohibitory orders under CrPC 144 have been clipped. His visit might have made a rule of peace and law circumstance. This is a preventive capture,” a senior cop told PTI.Violence shook portions of Howrah on Friday following the incendiary comments of now-suspended BJP representative Nupur Sharma on Prophet Mohammed.

By Martin