"We found that even ministers of UPA partner Trinamool Congress took to the road in the city to protest petrol price hike. The same party announced measures to counter the BJP-sponsored bandh called on the same issue", state BJP secretary Ritesh Tiwari said in a statement here.
Criticising the state government's circular to its employees against absence from duty tomorrow and cautioning salary-cut, Tiwari said, "we have no hesitation to call these steps as fascist action".
"It is condemnable that the state government is bent upon gagging democracy, for which the previous Left Front government had learnt bitter lessons and had to pay for", he said.
During the BJP-sponsored statewide bandh, called in response to the NDA's nationwide bandh call tomorrow, the party workers would resort to road blockade programmes and take out processions all over West Bengal, he said.