Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Biman Ghosh was injured in the violence.
A heavy police deployment has now been made in the area to prevent any further flare-ups. Police are doing route march, and prohibitory orders under CrPC section 144 have been imposed in Rishra wards 1-5 and Serampore’s ward 24. Internet services will remain suspended in parts of Rishra and Serampore till 10 pm on Monday, a senior police officer was quoted as saying by PTI.
West Bengal | State govt suspends internet services in Hooghly district after the clashes during BJP Shobha yatra West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose said those behind the violence will be booked tonight itself and put behind bars.
Source:- NDTV
The miscreants, the hooligans, and the thugs will be crushed with an iron hand. They will be made to curse the day they were born. Mobocracy cannot derail democracy. We are determined, the state is determined to put an end to this arson and looting, he said.
The lawbreakers and their abettors will soon realize they are playing with fire, he added. Bose said this kind of hooliganism, which thwarts the democratic processes, will be coffined.
Source: NDTV
BJP MP Dilip Ghosh, who was in the procession that was attacked, told the news agency PTI that people were walking peacefully to the Jagannath temple in Mahesh when stones were hurled at them.
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