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 social gathering’s state chief Sukanta Majumdar, clashed with the police in Basirhat after being stopped from holding a protest. The police mentioned the protesters threw stones at them and there may be video footage to establish these concerned. A number of policemen have been injured within the violence.
Mr Majumdar had taken a neighborhood practice 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 gasoline shells to disperse them, they retaliated with stones. The conflict passed off outdoors 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 gasoline shells have been used on our staff. Then, our staff have been arrested,” he mentioned.
Trinamool staff have been raping ladies 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 finished, we’ll sit right here all by way of the evening,” he mentioned, beginning a sit-in protest on the spot.
Senior police officer Sumit Kumar mentioned there was stone pelting they usually used batons and tear gasoline “to save lots of our lives and different folks’s lives”. The police, he mentioned, 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. Â
The Trinamool has hit out on the BJP, accusing it of upsetting 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 mentioned.
BJP staff and supporters threw stones on the police personnel. One girl has been severely injured, the Trinamool mentioned.
“How can these folks speak about ladies’s safety and atrocities? Yesterday, Smriti Irani termed that the atrocities that happen on ladies are primarily based on faith. However the actions of her social gathering staff right now replicate BJP’s true character,” the social gathering added (IN A STATEMENT?).
Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned Sandeshkhali is now completely peaceable and the state of affairs is underneath management. A Trinamool workforce additionally visited the realm.
The social gathering has additionally accused the Left Entrance of making contemporary provocation together with the BJP. Trinamool chief Partha Bhowmick mentioned Sandeshkhali is a CPMs bastion and Trinamool has by no means received 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 mentioned.
