doctor who took on Mamata in UK, 25 of BJP held
Kolkata, June 21 -- The BJP'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 on Friday afternoon for "disrupting" traffic moments after they held a brief roadside interaction in Kolkata, sparking a political uproar.
Majumdar and Bandyopadhyay were later released.The BJP alleged that the detentions came as the doctor had confronted CM Mamata Banerjee in Oxford University in March, asking her to name a single major industry that had come to Bengal during her tenure, following which chaos ensued and university security had to intervene.
Majumdar alleged that he was "arrested" at the behest of the chief minister. htc...
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