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The West Bengal Police have arrested a man, who was seen brandishing a weapon during a Ram Navami procession, from Munger in Bihar..
Howrah Police Commissioner Praveen Tripathi told The Indian Express, Sumit Shaw, the son of Raj Kumar Shaw, has been arrested from Munger last night..
It is clear that the BJP is bringing hooligans from Munger to Bengal for creating a disturbance, added party leader Kunal Ghosh...
If the police are so competent that they identified and arrested this man from Munger why did they fail to stop him from participating in the rally itself?.
TMCs National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee had on March 31 posted a video on Twitter showing a man allegedly from the VHPs Ramnavami Shobha Yatra in Howrah brandishing a country-made gun..
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