Hundreds members and supporters of Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) and the Tea Plantation Employees’ Union today protested and demonstrated in Siliguri against state government demanding immediate reopening of closed tea gardens of North Bengal. SUCI furious members burnt effigy of the chief minister Mamata Banerjee at HasmiChowk along hill cart road and shouted slogans against alleged atrocity of the state government for solving the problems of tea garden workers. The members also demanded the arrest of the tea garden owners who fled away throwing thousands of workers to die without food and medical aid.