Police are utilizing water cannons and teargas to cease protesters marching to Nabanna
Kolkata:
Chaotic scenes are being witnessed on the streets of Kolkata as police intercepted a protest march to state secretariat Nabanna over the rape and homicide of a 31-year-old physician within the metropolis’s RG Kar Medical School and Hospital on August 9. Riot police are utilizing teargas shells and water cannons to cease the protesters from proceedings in the direction of the state secretariat. A number of the protesters are throwing stones in the direction of the cops.
No permission was given for the protest march and the ruling Trinamool Congress yesterday alleged a conspiracy to create unrest throw violence through the rally. Kolkata Police just about turned Nabanna right into a fortress and as many as 6,000 police personnel had been deployed to cease the protesters from advancing the secretariat from any route. Drones had been additionally used to maintain a watch on the protesters. Barricades have been welded into the bottom and greased to forestall the protesters from scaling them.
This morning, a bunch of protesters gathered at School Sq. and marched in the direction of Nabanna. They raised slogans demanding Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s resignation over the horrific rape and homicide case. A number of scholar organisations and citizen boards have joined the protest. Visuals confirmed the protesters shaking the barricades of their manner.
Whereas the ruling Trinamool alleges it is a BJP-backed protest, the organisers have mentioned it’s a march deliberate by scholar organisations. Most of the outfits a part of right this moment’s protest will not be registered organisations. Most recognized scholar outfits, together with these affiliated to political events, have distanced themselves from the protest.
This morning, Chief of the Opposition in Bengal Meeting, Suvendu Adhikari, mentioned 4 scholar activists a part of the protest plan went lacking after midnight.
“The next Scholar Activists who had been distributing meals to the volunteers, who had been arriving at Howrah Station, instantly went lacking after midnight :- Subhojit Ghosh, Pulokesh Pandit, Goutam Senapati, Pritam Sarkar. Neither they are often traced nor are they answering their telephones.
We apprehend that they might have been arrested/detained by the Mamata Police. If one thing occurs to them Mamata Police can be held accountable,” Mr Adhikari mentioned in a put up on X.
Bengal police responded that the scholars had been planning to orchestrate large-scale violence throughout right this moment’s march “and had been concerned in a conspiracy of homicide and tried homicide”. “They’ve been arrested within the Curiosity of public security and safety, and their households have been knowledgeable,” they mentioned. Mr Adhikari then mentioned that the households of the 4 college students have approached the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
Certainly one of organisers, Shubankar Halder, has mentioned he was an ABVP member at one level, however isn’t linked to the organisation anymore. He mentioned this protest is an apolitical protest.
The Trinamool has mentioned this march is an try to create chaos within the identify of scholars’ protest. State minister Chandrima Bhattacharya advised the media yesterday, “This can be a BJP-ABVP plot to create disturbance. This can be a plot to open fireplace by criminals in police uniform. Tomorrow there are exams. Can college students do that? They’re doing vulture politics.”
The Trinamool launched two movies to emphasize that there’s a plot to create unrest. Within the movies, the authenticity of which NDTV has not verified, a number of males are heard saying, “we want our bodies”. Trinamool chief Jayprakash Majumdar alleged, “The BJP management has been advised that until a Nandigram-type incident occurs and there are useless our bodies, the tide won’t flip in BJP’s favour.”