KOLKATA :
BJP supporters on Monday
staged protests across the city
and districts demanding the
identification, arrest and deportation of Pakistani citizens living
in India, following the recent terror attack in Pahalgam.
At Alipore, outside the South
24 Parganas district magistrate’s
office here, around 200 BJP members led by senior leader
Debasree Choudhury staged a
protest and accused the State
Government of not acting quickly on Union Home Minister Amit
Shah’s directive to deport
Pakistani nationals from all the
States and take legal action.
“We have reasons to believe
that many Pakistani nationals
are hiding in South 24 Parganas
and other parts of West Bengal.
After the Pahalgam attack, Shah
spoke to several State
Governments about tracking
them. Other states responded,
but Bengal hasn’t taken much
action,” alleged Choudhury, a
former Union Minister.
The protest led to scuffles with
police, who had barricaded
Judges Court Road, causing traffic disruption for about an hour. The district magistrate’s office
shares its compound with the
West Bengal police headquarters, Bhavani Bhavan, and the
district sessions court.