<p>BJP supporters clashed with police and pelted stones at buses during a 12-hour bandh called by the party in north Bengal on Tuesday over the unnatural death of a party MLA.</p>.<p>The bandh that started at 6 am evoked a mixed response with shops remaining closed in some places and lesser number of public transport vehicles on the roads.</p>.<p>The body of Hemtabad MLA Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging from the ceiling of a verandah outside a shuttered shop near his home in Bindal village in North Dinajpur district on Monday.</p>.<p>West Bengal police said a suicide note was found from his shirt pocket where he blamed two people for his death. Ray's family and the BJP, however, claimed he was murdered and demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.</p>.<p>While trying to implement the bandh, BJP supporters clashed with the police in Coochbehar town during their attempt to prevent buses from leaving a North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) depot.</p>.<p>Window panes of a couple of buses, including one that plies on the Coochbehar-Mathabhanga route, were damaged allegedly by the bandh supporters, officials said.</p>.<p>The agitators, led by BJP's Coochbehar district president Malati Rava were removed by the police, following which the buses moved out of the depot, they said.</p>.<p>In Siliguri, north Bengal's largest city, government bus services were near normal, but private buses were fewer in number.</p>.<p>Shops and markets in some places were closed, although, with the rising number of Covid-19 cases, some areas of the city have been declared containment zones and are already under lockdown.</p>.<p>People were seen visiting the markets that were open.</p>.<p>The bandh evoked mixed response in Malda and North Dinajpur district. Several bandh supporters were seen picketing on roads and raising slogans demanding an "impartial investigation" into the legislator's death.</p>.<p>Ray had won the Hemtabad (reserved) seat on a CPI-M ticket in 2016 but later joined the BJP. He had, however, not quit his assembly seat. </p>
<p>BJP supporters clashed with police and pelted stones at buses during a 12-hour bandh called by the party in north Bengal on Tuesday over the unnatural death of a party MLA.</p>.<p>The bandh that started at 6 am evoked a mixed response with shops remaining closed in some places and lesser number of public transport vehicles on the roads.</p>.<p>The body of Hemtabad MLA Debendra Nath Ray was found hanging from the ceiling of a verandah outside a shuttered shop near his home in Bindal village in North Dinajpur district on Monday.</p>.<p>West Bengal police said a suicide note was found from his shirt pocket where he blamed two people for his death. Ray's family and the BJP, however, claimed he was murdered and demanded a CBI inquiry into the incident.</p>.<p>While trying to implement the bandh, BJP supporters clashed with the police in Coochbehar town during their attempt to prevent buses from leaving a North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) depot.</p>.<p>Window panes of a couple of buses, including one that plies on the Coochbehar-Mathabhanga route, were damaged allegedly by the bandh supporters, officials said.</p>.<p>The agitators, led by BJP's Coochbehar district president Malati Rava were removed by the police, following which the buses moved out of the depot, they said.</p>.<p>In Siliguri, north Bengal's largest city, government bus services were near normal, but private buses were fewer in number.</p>.<p>Shops and markets in some places were closed, although, with the rising number of Covid-19 cases, some areas of the city have been declared containment zones and are already under lockdown.</p>.<p>People were seen visiting the markets that were open.</p>.<p>The bandh evoked mixed response in Malda and North Dinajpur district. Several bandh supporters were seen picketing on roads and raising slogans demanding an "impartial investigation" into the legislator's death.</p>.<p>Ray had won the Hemtabad (reserved) seat on a CPI-M ticket in 2016 but later joined the BJP. He had, however, not quit his assembly seat. </p>