The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party for felicitating three men with saffron party links, who allegedly assaulted a Muslim vendor named Sheikh Riajul, for selling chicken patties near the Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata on December 7, during the mass Gita recital programme. Mamata Banerjee had also slammed the BJP at her public meeting in Nadia on Thursday. “At every gathering, there are hawkers who sell food. You have beaten a poor hawker. I have arrested all those who assaulted him. This is Bengal, not Uttar Pradesh," said Banerjee.

What happened is a brazen declaration that @BJP4India has abandoned democracy and adopted hooliganism as its operating system.

By felicitating the very men arrested for assaulting two chicken-patty vendors, @SuvenduWB

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