A confrontation broke out at Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s workplace on Camac Avenue on Thursday after Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC) officers, accompanied by police, arrived to take away a billboard allegedly put in with out permission.
Banerjee and a few TMC leaders blocked the trail of the police and KMC officers as they tried to maneuver by way of the human barricade. The jostling continued for round one hour.
Banerjee, who streamed all the incident stay on Fb, alleged that the order to take away the billboard, which Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC) officers dropped at him, lacked a memo quantity and {a photograph} of the billboard, despite the fact that the order talked about it as an accompanying doc.
“The police acted past its jurisdiction. They forcefully entered my workplace though the billboard is positioned on the roof. Our MP Derek O’Brien and several other members of my workplace workers, together with girls, had been injured. We’ll transfer the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom tomorrow,” Banerjee stated on Fb Stay at 5.57 pm when KMC employees had been eradicating the billboard.
“The police have grow to be the Bharatiya Janata Occasion’s slave. There are 400 BJP billboards on Camac Avenue. They won’t take away even one,” Banerjee stated.
An officer from the Park Avenue police station stated on situation of anonymity that TMC employees guarding the constructing’s entry level assaulted a number of policemen.
“Should you watch the movies then you will note a number of policemen being assaulted. Senior IPS officers have rushed to the spot,” he stated.
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Dismissing Banerjee’s allegation, agricultural advertising and marketing minister Dilip Ghosh stated, “When the police didn’t do their responsibility, they discovered the police to be excellent. Now that the police are doing their responsibility, Abhishek Banerjee finds them biased.”
