The Kolkata Police arrested 26 people, including civil rights and anti-CAA activists, on Friday, 1 April, for allegedly gathering at Park Circus to take out a rally urging people not to vote for Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Babul Supriyo in the upcoming Ballygunge bypolls. They were released the same evening.
The former Union minister who had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the TMC's candidate for the 12 April bypolls.
Some of the arrested persons had participated in the "No vote to BJP” campaign, which was conducted ahead of the Bengal Assembly polls in 2021.