Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress and its new ally Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) on Friday called for a 12-hour 'Bengal bandh' on April 21 in protest against the "failure" of the Centre and the West Bengal government in checking spiraling prices of essential commodities.
"We have called the bandh as the state and the central governments have ignored public inconvenience caused by sharp rise in prices of essential commodities," Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee told a rally before courting arrest along with leaders of her party and SUCI.
Mamata said the government's failure to check spiraling prices was fueling inflation.
"The inflation rate is going up and the Centre is unmoved. The West Bengal government is also indifferent to the sufferings of the people," she alleged.
She said her party had refrained from calling a shutdown on the issue earlier because of the ICSE, CBSE and higher secondary examinations.
Leader of Opposition Partha Chatterjee, Trinamool leader Saugata Roy and those of SUCI and the Trinamool-led 17-party Progressive Democratic Secular Front (PDSF), courted arrest on Rani Rashmoni Road near the Raj Bhavan.
Earlier, Mamata led a procession of supporters of her party, SUCI and PDSF from College Street in north Kolkata to Esplanade with traffic going haywire in the metropolis.
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