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Kolkata: Left Workers Suffer Bleeding Injuries During a Protest As Police Use Force
Several youth workers affiliated with Leftist unions had tried to march to the state secretariat to show red card to chief minister Mamata Banerjee in protest.
A protestor after police resorted to baton charge in a bid to stop Left youth workers from marching to state secretariat in protest in Kolkata, West Bengal. Photo: Special arrangement.
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Kolkata: Kolkata Police on Thursday resorted to lathi-charge, firing of tear gas shells and water cannons trying to disperse an agitation of Leftist youth workers when they were marching to the state secretariat in protest as part of Nabanna Abhiyan. Several agitators, including women, suffered bleeding injuries.
Violence erupts in Kolkata during Left parties’ march to Secretariat
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February 15, 2021 12:01 IST
Student and youth wing leaders said their gathering was to show a “red card” to Mamata govt
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Police arrested activists of the CPI (M)-backed DYFI after they tried to enter the State Secretariat Nabanna, in Kolkata on February 11, 2021. Videograb: Special arrangement
Student and youth wing leaders said their gathering was to show a “red card” to Mamata govt
Violence erupted in Kolkata on Thursday during a march to the State Secretariat” organised by the students and youth wings of Left parties. Water cannons were used against the protesters and the police deployed at Dorina Crossing at Esplanade in central Kolkata resorted to baton charge to disperse the crowd. Several protesters were injured in the violence. Police also fired tear gas shells to disperse the mob. There was pelting of stones in areas around Esplanade, with promine