Nabanna Abhiyan: Watch Protestors Clash With Police, Climb Atop Barricades To Reach Bengal Secretariat Updated: August 27, 2024 1:41 PM IST By The ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ protest march, held to seek justice for the trainee doctor who was raped and murdered at RG Kar Hospital on August 9, intensified and turned violent as protestors clashed with the police while attempting to breach barricades at Santragachi in Howrah. To stop the protesters, the police resorted to a lathi charge. As the protestors began pelting stones at the police, they responded with tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowd.
The protesters demanded resignation of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. | West Bengal: Protestors climb atop Police barricades, clash with Police personnel and break away the barricades at Santragachi in Howrah, as they carry out ‘Nabanna Abhiyan’ march over RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case. — ANI (@ANI) Earlier, the police termed the Nabanna march illegal and to stop it they banned the gatherings of more than five people around the area as part of the restrictions.
Notably, the CPI(M) and Congress refused to take part in the protest, alleging “RSS connection”. Nabanna Abhiyan: Students Went Missing Ahead of the march, the saffron party leader Suvendu Adhikari took to X and claimed that four “student activists who were arriving at the Horah railway station went missing after midnight”. Responding on the BJP leader’s claim, West Bengal police term.
