India, July 8 -- Trinamool Congress chairperson and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of disrupting their protest over the rape and murder of a minor girl in Baruipur.

Banerjee claimed that the police had failed to discharge their duties impartially, and alleged that the cops had become "an arm of the BJP organisation", PTI news agency reported. The BJP did not immediately respond to Banerjee's allegations.

Addressing a gathering at Hazra Crossing in south Kolkata after the protest march ended, Banerjee claimed that supporters of the BJP had obstructed the rally and assaulted TMC workers at several places along the route. Workers of the BJP and the TMC youth wing had clashe...