Updated On: 26 August, 2024 09:47 AM IST | Kolkata | mid-day online correspondent
Union Minister and West Bengal party chief Sukanta Majumdar said BJP will begin a sit-in in the Esplanade area of the state capital from Wednesday while the party`s women`s wing will lock the gates of the state women`s commission office, demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the Kolkata rape-murder case

BJP leaders Locket Chatterjee and Phalguni Patra take part in a protest against the Kolkata rape-murder, in the West Bengal capital, on Sunday. Pic/PTI
Stepping up the attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president Sukanta Majumdar announced a series of protests over the Kolkata rape-murder case. A 31-year-old postgraduate trainee doctor was brutally assaulted and murdered at a state-run hospital in the capital city on August 9, triggering protests across the country.
The protests against the Kolkata rape-murder incident will be held across the state between August 28 and September 4, said Majumdar, who is also a Union minister, news agency PTI reported.