Security arrangements were beefed up in Kolkata with heavy barricading at Hastings near the state government's new Secretariat.

Suvendu Adhikari was caught on camera resisting an arrest by a ‘lady’ police official during the BJP's protest march in Kolkata – the video of which was then shared by the ruling TMC.

Parts of Bengal turned into a battlefield as BJP activists clashed with the police during the protest march. Several police officers and saffron camp members, including leaders Mina Devi Purohit and Swapan Dasgupta, were reportedly injured in the melee.

The Bengal CM said that BJP alleges money from coal scam goes to Kalighat - the neighbourhood in Kolkata where Mamata Banerjee's house is located, but fails to name anyone. “Is the money going to Maa Kali?” she asked.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reacted to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee saying the party has full faith in the judiciary

A jail officer said Sehgal Hossain, a police constable assigned to TMC’s Birbhum district unit president Anubrata Mondal, inquiries about Mondal’s health ever since the TMC leader was taken to the correctional home

Bengal CM and TMC boss Mamata Banerjee said that the BJP is using black money and central agencies to dislodge elected non-saffron party governments across India.

The Bengal BJP started its 3-day strategy meet in a Kolkata resort on Monday even as chief minister Mamata Banerjee raised questions over the money being spent by the saffron camp

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee dismissed the allegations of an exponential rise in assets of her relatives in the last few years and dared the BJP to have her arrested