India, Dec. 14 -- Even as a district court on Sunday remanded Satadru Dutta, the organiser of Lionel Messi's West Bengal tour, in police custody for two weeks, the state's ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition Bharatiya Janata Party blamed each other for Saturday's rampage at Kolkata's Salt Lake stadium by a section of spectators who bought tickets to see the Argentine football star but flared up when he left in a hurry because of alleged mismanagement.

TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh pointed at photos and videos of some of the spectators carrying saffron flags and raising the Jai Sri Ram slogan during the vandalism that prompted police to disperse the crowd.

Most of the spectators in the 50,000-strong crowd had purchased tic...