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The legal battle between the Mamata Banerjee government and the BJP over the November 29 rally to be led by Union home minister Amit Shah in Esplanade was escalated to a division bench of Calcutta High Court on Wednesday.
A day after Justice Rajasekhar Mantha of the high court verbally told the state government to allow the BJP to have its rally at the venue it wants, with the imposition of necessary guidelines, the state moved the division bench comprising Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya. The bench fixed the state’s appeal for hearing on November 28, the day before Shah’s proposed rally, which the state government sought.
