Kolkata: National Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Bannerjee has withdrawn the 12-hour Bengal bandh one-and-a-half hours before the scheduled deadline.
The 'Bangla Bandh' was called on Thursday with the 'moral' support of Congress shortly after the ransacking of the West Bengal Assembly by party members. They were protesting an alleged assault on Mamata Bannerjee.
The bandh was called to protest alleged forcible acquisition of farm land, police atrocities on party supporters and curbing of democratic rights of opposition parties by the Left Front Government, Mamata Bannerjee said.
Trinamool Congress legislators on Thursday, unleashed violence in the West Bengal Assembly, pulling down mikes and upturning furniture, after party supremo Mamata Bannerjee was forcibly stopped on her way to Singur for a rally against a proposed Tata Motors car project.
A CPI-M MLA was seriously injured while two security personnel and as many media photographers also received injuries in the unprecedented incident.
The incident took place after Bannerjee, who was arrested by police earlier in the day for violating prohibitory orders near Singur, barged inside the Assembly premises.
WBPCC working President Pradip Bhattacharjee said Congress would extend 'moral support' to the bandh. Congress members Sudip Bandopadhyay and Manas Bhuinya condemned the alleged assault on her.
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