Via PTI
KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BJP introduced in hoodlums armed with bombs in trains from out of doors the state to foment hassle all the way through its march to the state secretariat Nabanna.
Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated the police may have opened hearth on violent BJP protesters all the way through the protest march on Tuesday, however the govt exercised most restraint.
“Many police workforce have been brutally attacked by means of the members of that rally. Police may have opened hearth, however our management confirmed most restraint,” she stated all the way through an administrative assembly at Nimtouri in Purba Medinipur district.
Given the similar ‘violent’ state of affairs, a minimum of 20 folks would were killed in firing had it been the Left Entrance regime, all the way through which the police have been “trigger-happy”, TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, thought to be the quantity two within the birthday celebration, claimed in Kolkata.
Throughout the rally, BJP supporters fought pitched battles with the police, threw stones at them, torched a automobile and broken a kiosk whilst the law enforcement officials used batons and water cannons to disperse the protesters. A number of individuals from either side have been injured within the melee.
The CM stated the protest march inconvenienced commuters and buyers, because it used to be held slightly a couple of weeks forward of Durga Puja, the state’s greatest pageant.
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“Now we have not anything towards democratic and non violent protests. However the BJP and its supporters resorted to violence, vandalism and arson. They torched homes and instilled worry amongst folks. We may not permit this. Arrests are being made, and regulation will take its personal route,” she stated.
Banerjee, additionally the CM’s nephew, stated democratic protesters would no longer torch a police automobile or attack a cop who had just a walkie-talkie in his hand.
He used to be speaking to journalists after visiting Assistant Commissioner of Police Debjit Chatterjee, who used to be injured all the way through the rally, at SSKM Health facility.
“Had I been provide on the spot the place the vandals poured petrol in a police automobile and set it ablaze, I’d have fired on the head of the attackerS. I’m talking best as an abnormal guy offended with such rowdyism, no longer as a member of a pressure underneath TMC rule which makes sense, restrained and humane,” Abhishek Banerjee stated.
He asked “a bit of the judiciary” to have a look at the protesters who took the regulation into their arms and did mayhem.
Within the TMC rule, the police don’t open hearth indiscriminately as used to be the norm within the Left Entrance regime, he claimed.
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He sought to remind the folk that police firing had left 13 folks useless all the way through the TMC’s march to Writers Structures, the then state secretariat, on July 21, 1993, when the CPI(M)-led Left Entrance used to be in energy within the state.
“I salute all our police workforce for his or her tireless efforts in keeping up regulation & order in our state; Kolkata is the most secure town owing to you,” the TMC MP stated in a Fb put up later.
Abhishek Banerjee additionally took a dig on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for telling a policewoman to not contact her when “she requested him to accompany her to a police automobile”.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar described the TMC chief’s remark about firing at protesters as “alarming”. “His phrases will best embolden the police and cadre giving upward push to shootings in long run,” he stated.
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Majumdar claimed the vandalism all the way through Tuesday’s protest march used to be instigated by means of TMC males who have been amongst BJP activists to malign the saffron birthday celebration.
He stated BJP will release an intense motion after Kali Puja throughout West Bengal towards the misrule of the TMC.
KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday alleged that the BJP introduced in hoodlums armed with bombs in trains from out of doors the state to foment hassle all the way through its march to the state secretariat Nabanna.
Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated the police may have opened hearth on violent BJP protesters all the way through the protest march on Tuesday, however the govt exercised most restraint.
“Many police workforce have been brutally attacked by means of the members of that rally. Police may have opened hearth, however our management confirmed most restraint,” she stated all the way through an administrative assembly at Nimtouri in Purba Medinipur district.
Given the similar ‘violent’ state of affairs, a minimum of 20 folks would were killed in firing had it been the Left Entrance regime, all the way through which the police have been “trigger-happy”, TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, thought to be the quantity two within the birthday celebration, claimed in Kolkata.
Throughout the rally, BJP supporters fought pitched battles with the police, threw stones at them, torched a automobile and broken a kiosk whilst the law enforcement officials used batons and water cannons to disperse the protesters. A number of individuals from either side have been injured within the melee.
The CM stated the protest march inconvenienced commuters and buyers, because it used to be held slightly a couple of weeks forward of Durga Puja, the state’s greatest pageant.
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“Now we have not anything towards democratic and non violent protests. However the BJP and its supporters resorted to violence, vandalism and arson. They torched homes and instilled worry amongst folks. We may not permit this. Arrests are being made, and regulation will take its personal route,” she stated.
Banerjee, additionally the CM’s nephew, stated democratic protesters would no longer torch a police automobile or attack a cop who had just a walkie-talkie in his hand.
He used to be speaking to journalists after visiting Assistant Commissioner of Police Debjit Chatterjee, who used to be injured all the way through the rally, at SSKM Health facility.
“Had I been provide on the spot the place the vandals poured petrol in a police automobile and set it ablaze, I’d have fired on the head of the attackerS. I’m talking best as an abnormal guy offended with such rowdyism, no longer as a member of a pressure underneath TMC rule which makes sense, restrained and humane,” Abhishek Banerjee stated.
He asked “a bit of the judiciary” to have a look at the protesters who took the regulation into their arms and did mayhem.
Within the TMC rule, the police don’t open hearth indiscriminately as used to be the norm within the Left Entrance regime, he claimed.
ALSO READ| ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’: Suvendu detained in Kolkata, clashes between BJP employees, police throughout Bengal
He sought to remind the folk that police firing had left 13 folks useless all the way through the TMC’s march to Writers Structures, the then state secretariat, on July 21, 1993, when the CPI(M)-led Left Entrance used to be in energy within the state.
“I salute all our police workforce for his or her tireless efforts in keeping up regulation & order in our state; Kolkata is the most secure town owing to you,” the TMC MP stated in a Fb put up later.
Abhishek Banerjee additionally took a dig on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari for telling a policewoman to not contact her when “she requested him to accompany her to a police automobile”.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar described the TMC chief’s remark about firing at protesters as “alarming”. “His phrases will best embolden the police and cadre giving upward push to shootings in long run,” he stated.
ALSO READ: Police may have opened hearth on violent BJP protesters, however executive exercised restraint: Mamata
Majumdar claimed the vandalism all the way through Tuesday’s protest march used to be instigated by means of TMC males who have been amongst BJP activists to malign the saffron birthday celebration.
He stated BJP will release an intense motion after Kali Puja throughout West Bengal towards the misrule of the TMC.
