New Delhi: At least four people were arrested on Wednesday, September 14, for allegedly assaulting a police officer and setting a police vehicle on fire in Kolkata during the BJP’s rally, an official said.The arrests were made during night-long raids in Beliaghata, Topsia and Bowbazar areas, he said.Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Debajit Chattopadhyay was chased and assaulted with sticks by some people in the Bowbazar area during the BJP’s ‘March to Nabanna’ rally on Tuesday.A police vehicle was also torched near the Kolkata Police headquarters Lalbazar. “The raids are still going on,” said an officer of Kolkata Police on Wednesday afternoon.The four arrested persons were identified from video clips of the two incidents, he said.They have been booked under sections dealing with attempt to murder, destruction of government property and preventing a public servant from performing duty, the officer said.Chattopadhyay suffered multiple fractures and is at present undergoing treatment at a hospital, he said.According to Indian Express, Calcutta high court sought a report on the violence from the state home secretary by September 19, after BJP alleged that their supporters were beaten up and prevented from reaching the State Secretariat in Howrah.BJP’s national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said the attacks were the handiwork of TMC supporters who got into the rally. “Our activists are being framed and false charges slapped against them,” he alleged.TMC MP Mahua Moitra said what if the West Bengal government followed the Uttar Pradesh “model” and “send bulldozers to homes of BJP workers who destroyed public property”.“TMC workers are not wearing bangles and if one of them is attacked then two of the BJP will be thrashed,” West Bengal minister Udayan Guha said.Guha, the MLA of Dinhata in Cooch Behar district, made the comment at a party meeting in Sitalkuchi on Tuesday, soon after the BJP rallies in Kolkata and Howrah turned violent.“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.The BJP said that such statements were 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.On Tuesday, September 13, parts of West Bengal turned into a battlefield as BJP activists clashed with the police during the protest march. Several police officers and saffron camp members, including leaders Mina Devi Purohit and Swapan Dasgupta, were reportedly injured in the melee.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, taken out by the saffron party to protest against the Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime’s alleged corrupt practices.The Nabanna Abhiyan (march to secretariat) was one of the party’s biggest campaigns since its 2021 poll defeat with thousands of party workers arrested or detained in several districts.The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the agitators, who tried to go past the barricades that were put in place at several points in the city and its adjoining areas.(With PTI inputs)