Around 3pm, demonstrators burnt tyres in the middle of Chowringhee, with some climbing onto stranded buses waving posters and shouting slogans. “This protest is against Mamata Banerjee and her party, and the manner in which she walked away with files during the ED raids on Thursday,” said Saumitra Khan, president of the BJP Yuva Morcha in Bengal. “The police and state officers who aided the chief minister in taking the files should be arrested along with Mamata Banerjee,” he said at the protest site. The police were forced to divert traffic through alternate routes and physically remove the protesters from the busy intersections. Traffic was restored after some time when the protesters were removed,” said a senior officer of Kolkata Police.

Source: The Telegraph January 10, 2026 01:35 UTC