India, Dec. 25 -- The BJP on Wednesday condemned the Kolkata police action against people protesting the attack on minorities in Bangladesh and called it "the height of appeasement" politics by the Mamata Banerjee Government in West Bengal.
It also criticised the Congress and other opposition parties, alleging that their silence on the issue reflects their "silent endorsement" to the lynching of a Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, on the streets of Bangladesh. This came a day after hundreds of supporters of a pro-Hindutva outfit tried to march to the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Kolkata on Tuesday and clashed with the police when they were stopped. The police resorted to baton charges to disperse the protesters who breached barricades i...