Scuffle breaks out between police and anti CAA protestors in Kolkata..

Kolkata, 25 January (HS): Minor scuffle broke out between the police and a section of anti CAA and anti-NRC protestors near the Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters here this afternoon when the police tried to remove the protestors from the otherwise busy inter junction in downtown Kolkata and clear the road for traffic on a working day.

According to the police, the tension broke out when some policemen tried to remove the protestors, their chairs and other furniture from the Dharna site in order to clear the road which remained closed for the past four days.

A  number of newly formed citizens organizations have set up their Dharna Manch near the KMC headquarters on S N Banerjee Road in central Kolkata in order to strengthen their protest against the CAA  and NRS  in line with several other protests and dharnas elsewhere in the city including the one at Park Circus crossing for the past several days.

When requests and pleas of the protestors failed to convince the police personnel who seemed determined to clear the road on as busy working day today after facing severe inconveniences for the last four days since 21 January, tension broke out in the area before minor scuffle between a section of police personnel and a section of protestors including some women.

However, soon the situation was brought under control by the senior police officials and leaders of the protesting organizations, who have also agreed to give away a portion of their dharnas manch to ensure flee flow of traffic on the street.

Describing of the alleged backtracking of the state administration from the Dharna site and allowing their sit-in protest to continue,  as their ‘success’, leaders of the local Civil Society made it clear that their round the clock protest on the open road would continue till the Union government was forced to withdraw both the acts.

It may be recalled that in order to generate massive public opinion, especially among the minority community in the city, about 300 men and women, representing a  newly formed Civil Society came to the KMC  headquarters in a procession on 21 January before sitting in a dharma on the middle of the busy road, halting the movement of traffic besides causing severe inconveniences to large number of people every day.