'Democracy on ventilator in BJP's Bengal': Venugopal hits uut at Pradhan arrest after Mamata's support

New Delhi, Sep 18 (UNI) Congress general secretary in-charge organisation K C Venugopal on Friday accused the BJP of misusing state power to undermine the Opposition in West Bengal after Congress candidate Milan Pradhan, contesting the Nandigram Assembly by-election, was reportedly arrested by the state police in connection with a 19-year-old case dating back to 2007. In a strongly worded post on X, Venugopal alleged that the arrest came shortly after Mamata Banerjee extended her support to the Congress nominee, following the withdrawal of her party's candidate from the contest. He described the development as another attempt to establish an…