Patna, Dec. 23 -- : Bihar Health and Law Minister and BJP in-charge for West Bengal Mangal Pandey today accused the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal of suppressing voices raised against the alleged atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh.
Pandey said here that protests against attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh, including a recent brutal mob lynching of a Hindu youth, were crushed by the West Bengal government using force, which, he said, was highly condemnable.
Terming the police lathicharge on a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) protest in Kolkata an attack on democracy, Pandey said the demonstration near the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission was peaceful and democratic. He said the protesters were only demanding to stop attacks on minority ...