Mamata 'Minority Communities are Being Targeted'

The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Tuesday announced protests across Kolkata and nearby areas on May 21 against the alleged eviction of hawkers and what it described as the ?bulldozer culture? being implemented by the newly-formed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal. 

According to the party, demonstrations will take place at Howrah Station, Sealdah Station and near Ballygunge, where party leaders and workers are expected to protest against the alleged targeting of hawkers



and minority communities.

The protests come amid heightened political tensions in the state following the recent Assembly election results, in which the BJP secured 207 seats, ending the Trinamool Congress?s 15-year rule in West Bengal. 

The TMC won 80 seats in the elections. Addressing party MLAs during a meeting in Kalighat on Tuesday, TMC chief Mamata Banerjee alleged that minority communities and hawkers were being targeted under the BJP-led administration.