Overview
- Supporters of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP confronted each other on Sunday evening in Kolkata’s Sakherbazar, with vandalism reported on both sides.
- The immediate trigger cited in reports was a quarrel over high-volume microphones at a local club during a badminton event.
- A temporary stage that had hosted a BJP meeting addressed earlier by Biplab Kumar Deb as part of the Parivartan Sankalp Yatra was set on fire.
- Police rushed a large contingent to the scene and a fire tender doused the flames; no arrests were reported in initial coverage.
- TMC’s Ratna Chatterjee accused BJP supporters of accosting club members, while BJP leaders blamed TMC workers and highlighted the incident as a law-and-order failure.