BJP women leaders stopped on way to Sandeshkhali, stage sit-in at police station

BJP women leaders led by party state general secretaries Agnimitra Paul and Locket Chatterjee were stopped by the West Bengal Police at New Town on the outskirts of Kolkata from heading towards Sandeshkhali on Thursday afternoon.

Following a scuffle and a bitter war of words with the police, the team was detained even as the leaders were seen holding a sit-in demonstration at the site they were stopped.

Demanding they be shown arrest memo, the four BJP women leaders launched a sit-in at New Town police station later vowing not to leave the place till they were shown document as been put under arrest.