jalpaiguri union minister of state for home nisith pramaniks bhetaguri home on the cooch behardinhata state highway turned a fortress on sunday as trinamool workers staged an 8hour protest over the death of a rajbanshi youth in bsf firing last yearpolice imposed crpc section 144 in a 150m radius and deployed raf and drone surveillance central forces were stationed at the house and none was allowed to enter the minister was not home at the time of the stir no untoward incident was reportedtrinamool national general secretary abhishek banerjee at a recent meeting in cooch behar had declared that the party would fight for 24yearold prem kumar barman who was killed on december 24 2022 prems father siben and brother sukumar joined the protest on sunday in which around 3500 people took partour partymen will show nisith pramanik black flags whenever he will step into villages this will continue till prem gets justice said dinhata mla and state cabinet minister udayan guha trinamool in a statement said we condemn the apathy of mos nisith pramanik towards rajbangshi community and bjps sheer ignorance towards their plight we demand accountability for the shooting of prem kumar barman by the bsf without any valid reason the postmortem report said 180 metallic pellets were found in prems body the autopsy was videographed and the cause of death was stated as being due to the effects of antemortem gunshot injuries homicidal in naturethe agitation at pramaniks home drew sharp reactions from bjp party state president sukanta majumdar said if they do not refrain from stooping so low we will be forced to gherao abhishek banerjees residence within 48 hours we will arrange a crowd double the size of what they had todayif you want to do politics you can gherao administrative offices even the office of the mha in delhi why trouble family members of a politician nisith pramanik has a small kid he added bjp sources later indicated that protests could be held by the partys south kolkata unit on february 21 trinamool mp santanu sen said if they try to take the law in their own hands the law will take its own course also on sunday a cooch behar youth was arrested in connection with an uncorroborated viral audio clip from a day ago in which a speaker was heard telling another to open fire at the protest the arrested man has been identified as tapan burman cooch behar police superintendent sumit kumar said there was a rumour on social media we investigated it we will question the person arrested for more details