New Delhi, April 2 -- BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia today hit out at the TMC workers for holding the judicial officers involved in SIR as hostages, surrounding them, which also included three women judges, questioning the lawlessness prevailing in the state.

Bhatia, while addressing a press conference at the party headquarters in Delhi, said that nobody could have ever imagined that the level of lawlessness under TMC regime would reach this extent.

He said, "Mamata Banerjee took an oath to protect the rule of law, yet officials who came to comply with the Supreme Court's order and carry out the SIR process were taken hostage."The BJP leader said that such a situation had never been seen in the history of the independent India where a pro...