Prohibitory orders continued and internet services remained suspended overnight in some areas of the violence-hit Hooghly district in West Bengal. Police stopped BJP leaders from entering Rishra on Monday, with the chief minister accusing the saffron party of Police said the situation in Rishra and Srerampore areas in Hooghly district, where violent clashes broke out during Ram Navami procession on Sunday, was peaceful and under control.

“I am not being allowed to meet my injured party workers. The police are citing the prohibitory orders. The police can at least allow Mahato and me to enter. The police do not want to allow me as they want to hide the truth,” BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar told reporters. BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahto, who was accompanying Majumdar, was seen having heated arguments with the cops.