Howrah: Around 400 people, many of them women, gathered on Friday outside Bagnan MLA Arunava Sen’s home, accusing the Trinamool neta of using his influence to terrorise residents who resisted selling land cheaply along National Highway 16 and other key corridors.Protesters alleged that those who refused were slapped with cases “related to women or drugs” and even “falsely imprisoned” while beneficiaries of housing schemes were forced to pay “hefty bribes” to access entitlements.The demonstration unfolded behind Khalor Gopimohan School in Bagnan constituency while Sen was at home. The crowd arrived carrying brooms, rotten eggs, torn shoes and buckets of cow dung, then burned the MLA’s photo and shouted slogans branding him a “thief” and “criminal.”Women reportedly beat Sen’s photograph with brooms and shoes. Sen claimed rotten eggs and cow dung were hurled at his house, but barricades and the arrival of police and central forces prevented vandalism. Several residents described personal grievances. Khukumoni Mallik alleged Sen “framed” her and sent her husband and brother-in-law to jail in a drug case.The MLA called the act “heinous,” claiming he “might have been killed” without police. He said the protesters were BJP supporters and urged an investigation, arguing BJP could use “CID, CBI and ED” if allegations were real. He also alleged Trinamool workers were being attacked and displaced, accusing BJP of seeking “a Bengal devoid of opposition.”
