Kolkata:
The political storm over the occasions at Bengal’s Sandeshkhali sparked violence in one other a part of the state on Tuesday. BJP staff, led by the get together’s state chief Sukanta Majumdar, clashed with the police in Basirhat after being stopped from holding a protest. The police stated the protesters threw stones at them and there’s video footage to establish these concerned. A number of policemen have been injured within the violence.
Mr Majumdar had taken a neighborhood prepare within the morning, anticipating police blockades to stop him from reaching Basirhat, an space in the identical north 24 Parganas district, the place prohibitory orders banning massive gatherings is in place.
Because the police lathicharged the protesters and fired tear fuel shells to disperse them, they retaliated with stones. The conflict befell exterior the workplace of the native Superintendent of Police.
Sukanta Majumdar claimed it was the police who used batons first, with out provocation. ”First, the police launched a lathicharge, it then pelted stones and later tear fuel shells have been used on our staff. Then, our staff have been arrested,” he stated.
Trinamool staff have been raping girls in Sandeshkhali for years now, he alleged, naming Sheikh Shahjahan, Shibu Hajra and Uttam Sardar on this context.
”We had come to the SP with the demand to arrest them… We additionally demand that our arrested staff should be launched. If this isn’t carried out, we are going to sit right here all via the evening,” he stated, beginning a sit-in protest on the spot.
Senior police officer Sumit Kumar stated there was stone pelting they usually used batons and tear fuel ”to save lots of our lives and different folks’s lives”. The police, he stated, has made some arrests.
The Sandeshkhali incident, the place a bunch of ladies have accused a neighborhood Trinamool strongman, Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides of sexually exploiting them, has led to an enormous political storm.
The Trinamool has hit out on the BJP, accusing it of scary violence.
”BJP leaders displayed their true colors by pelting stones on the police on the behest of Union Minister Smriti Irani, who unfold misinformation and dished out provocative and divisive feedback on Sandeshkhali a day earlier,” the Trinamool stated.
BJP staff and supporters threw stones on the police personnel. One girl has been severely injured, the Trinamool stated.
”How can these folks speak about girls’s safety and atrocities? Yesterday, Smriti Irani termed that the atrocities that happen on girls are based mostly on faith. However the actions of her get together staff at this time replicate BJP’s true character,” the get together added (IN A STATEMENT?).
Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated Sandeshkhali is now completely peaceable and the state of affairs is beneath management. A Trinamool workforce additionally visited the realm.
The get together has additionally accused the Left Entrance of making contemporary provocation together with the BJP. Trinamool chief Partha Bhowmick stated Sandeshkhali is a CPMs bastion and Trinamool has by no means gained within the space.
”Out of 14 anchals within the space, violence was orchestrated in a single. This remoted incident is getting used to propagate that violence is being witnessed in all of Sandeshkhali,” Mr Bhowmick has stated.