Image Source : ANI West Bengal Bandh as we speak: Left, Congress observe 12-hour shutdown to protest police crackdown
Left Front and affiliate events has known as for a 12- hour West Bengal bandh from 6 am as we speak in protest in opposition to police crackdown on Kolkata march. On Thursday, Left and Congress activists demanding jobs clashed with the police in central Kolkata’s Esplanade space as they tried to interrupt barricades on their strategy to state secretariat Nabanna, leading to accidents to a number of individuals and in addition the police.
Condemning the brutal assaults on college students and younger women and men by the “police force of the Trinamool Congress government”, Left Front Chairman Biman Bose known as for a 12- hour West Bengal bandh.
“The way police unleashed atrocities on the participants in the march to Nabanna, it created a situation somewhat akin to the historic Jallianwala Bagh incident,” Bose mentioned in a press release.
The Left Front chairman claimed that greater than 150 college students and younger women and men have been injured within the police motion whereas taking part within the ‘Nabanna abhiyan’ programme of the scholar and youth wings of the Left and Congress demanding jobs and higher training amenities.
Bose mentioned that the bandh name has been mentioned with the Left Front constituents and the Congress social gathering, with which it has shaped an electoral alliance for the approaching meeting elections in West Bengal. The Left-Congress allaince has come as much as make the Bengal polls a triangular struggle with the TMC and the BJP.
The march to Nabanna began at College Street however was stopped by the police on SN Banerjee Road within the Esplanade space. As the activists tried to go additional by breaking the heavy metallic barricades, police used water cannons. Amid slogans in opposition to the Mamata Banerjee authorities, the Left-wing youths and college students tried to climb up the barricades, following which police started a baton-charge and in addition fired tear-gas shells.
Some police officers have been additionally reported to be injured within the clashes. CPI(M) politburo member Mohammad Salim alleged that the Mamata Banerjee authorities is completely depending on the police drive to suppress protests and calls for by the folks.
“Why is she afraid of receiving a memorandum from jobless youths,” he requested in a press convention on the CPI(M) headquarters right here after the incident.
Condemning the assaults on the agitators, Congress Rajya Sabha MP Pradip Bhattacharya mentioned that the Trinamool Congress authorities has misplaced the folks’s religion and violent suppression of protests is a sign of that.
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