Defied Bharat Bandh? Here's a 'rosogolla' for you - Bengal BJP's sweet treat

Sep 10 (AZINS) What is the connection between Bharat Bandh and rosogullas? There is if you happen to be in West Bengal!

In a unique way of showing the support for the Narendra Modi government during nationwide protest against the rising fuel prices, Bengal BJP members and workers distributed rosogullas to anyone who defied the Bharat Bandh.

Many BJP workers were seen distributing sweets in Howrah to shopkeepers, who opened their outlets during bandh. They also offered sweets to the drivers who drove around the city during the protests.

When asked for the reason of this sweet treat, one of them told news agency ANI that ‘people know that fuel prices might have risen but prices of ration, vegetables did not, as compared to 2013.’

The BJP workers also said that those who defied Bharat Bandh had come out in Modi government’s support. 

Sporadic incidents of violence were reported Monday during a Congress-led opposition sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' against spiralling fuel prices that disrupted normal life mainly in Bihar, Kerala, Karnataka, Assam and Odisha.

As the Congress top brass including party chief Rahul Gandhi targeted the Modi government at a protest rally in Ramlila maidan in Delhi, offices and educational institutes remained closed and vehicles were off the roads in the states hit by the bandh that drew a mixed response.

The bandh was called by 21 opposition parties that included the Congress, its allies and the Left.

Scores of Congress activists were taken into police custody in several states for forcibly trying to enforce the bandh, according to reports from the state capitals.

While the Congress and other opposition parties claimed the bandh was a success, the ruling BJP claimed it was a flop.

In states like Kerala, Karnataka, Bihar, Odisha and Arunachal Pradesh life was hit by the shutdown, but Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Mizoram remained largely unaffected.

The Left observed a 12-hour strike in Kerala and West Bengal instead of the 9 am to 3 pm shutdown called by the Congress and other parties.

The dawn-to-dusk hartal, called by the ruling CPI(M)-led LDF in Kerala and Congress-headed opposition UDF was near total and passed off peacefully. The hartal hit normal life and both public and private transport buses and autorickshaws stayed off the roads.