West Bengal minister Udayan Guha  warned that if one of the TMC workers is attacked then two of the BJP will be thrashed, saying that they are not “wearing bangles”.

Guha, the MLA of Dinhata in Cooch Behar district, made the remarks at a party meeting in Sitalkuchi on Tuesday, after clashes broke out at the BJP rallies in Kolkata and Howrah.

“We are not wearing bangles. If my boys are attacked, we will not sit idle. They should remember that if they beat up one of us, we will hit back by thrashing two of them,” said Guha, the North Bengal Development Minister in Bengal government, said.

Retorting to his remarks, the BJP said that such statements are quite expected from TMC leaders who speak the “language of lumpen”.

“The more the TMC’s misdeeds are getting exposed, the more their leaders are getting desperate, and making such comments out of frustration,” BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said.

BJP’s ‘Nabanna Abhijan’ (march to secretariat) to the state secretariat against the ruling TMC’s alleged corrupt practises turned violent on Tuesday after party activists engaged in a scuffle with the police. Several police personnel and saffron camp members, including leaders Mina Devi Purohit and Swapan Dasgupta, were reportedly injured in the face-off.

Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, the party’s Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and senior leader Rahul Sinha were among those detained during the march.

The police used tear gas and water cannons to stop the agitators from moving towards the state secretariat. Some protesters also tried to go past the barricades that were put in place at several points in the city and its adjoining areas.

Earlier today, senior BJP leader and former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said “all limits of brutality and political violence” were crossed in West Bengal on Tuesday.

The BJP leader said that the state has become lawless under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s leadership