Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday called off a hunger strike by its workers in West Bengal, which was part of a wider programme to protest against the "misrule" of the Trinamool government.

"I had a talk with party president (Amit Shah). He advised us to withdraw the hunger strike but asked us to continue the movement. Our struggle against this government will continue," Kailash Vijayvargiya, in-charge of BJP affairs in West Bengal, said.

Several BJP activists, led by central leaders Vijayvargiya, Sidharth Nath Singh and Suresh Pujari, were injured on Thursday in an alleged baton charge by the police during their 'Jail Bharo Andolan' (fill the jails campaign) in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts.

The police subsequently arrested five BJP activists in Nadia district. The party said the arrests were wrong.