3 BJP activists arrested for raising 'goli maro...' slogan in Bengal

    Chandannagar (WB), Jan 21 (PTI) Three BJP activists
including its Hooghly district youth wing chief Suresh Sahu
have been arrested for allegedly raising 'goli maro...' (shoot
the traitors) slogan at a roadshow of party leader Suvendu
Adhikari here, police said on Thursday.
    Some BJP activists had allegedly raised the slogan at
a party programme in West Bengal's Hooghly district on
Wednesday, following which district police registered a suo
motu case and arrested them late at night, an officer said.
    The three arrested persons will be produced at a court
during the day, he said.
    The activists, who were trailing the truck carrying
Adhikari along with Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Rajya
Sabha member Swapan Dasgupta, had allegedly raised the slogan
holding BJP flags and the Tricolour in Rathtala area here.
    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said that the
party does not endorse the slogan raised by the participants
holding the BJP flag. PTI COR PNT
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