doctor who took on Mamata in UK, 25 BJP workers held during stir
Kolkata, June 21 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party's West Bengal unit president and Union minister of state Sukanta Majumdar and Rajat Subhra Banerjee, a UK-based doctor, were detained by Kolkata police and taken to the Lalbazar police headquarters in front of the media on Friday afternoon on charges of disrupting traffic moments after they held a brief roadside interaction in Kolkata, sparking a political uproar.
Majumdar and Bandyopadhyay, a British passport holder with roots in South Kolkata, were later released.The BJP alleged that the detentions were linked to the doctor's now-famous confrontation with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a lecture at Kellogg College, Oxford University, in March.
Bandyopadhyay had asked the CM to name a s...
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