Cockroach Janta Party gets Delhi Police nod for protest at Jantar Mantar today
An official police communication shows the Cockroach Janta Party received permission to hold a day-long demonstration at Jantar Mantar under a one-time exemption.
An official police communication shows the Cockroach Janta Party received permission to hold a day-long demonstration at Jantar Mantar under a one-time exemption.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) is facing unrest in South 24-Parganas after a section of party workers launched protests in Canning East, demanding that sitting MLA Saokat Molla be retained as the candidate from the constituency instead of being shifted to Bhangar.
Congress workers, led by state party leaders, tried to march towards the Assembly building but were stopped midway leading to bedlam and blockade of the road between Karnprayag and Gairsain.
The protest, led by the Rajasthan Sonam Wangchuk Release Forum, was held near the main gate of the jail, where demonstrators staged a dharna in support of their demand.
From Indore to Puducherry and Varanasi to Delhi, BJP workers staged demonstrations condemning the disruption, with several protests turning violent.
The decision was taken at a meeting of board and corporation office-bearers, frontal organisation leaders and departmental heads held at the Congress Bhavan here under the chairmanship state Congress president Keshav Mahato Kamlesh.
Although the admissions were done through the NEET merit list, the protestors demanded that the medical institute should be reserved for Hindu students, as it was being funded with donations of Hindu devotees by the Vaishnodevi Shrine Board.
The Congress protest followed the lynching of Dipu Chandra Das, a Hindu garment factory worker in Mymensingh near Dhaka, on Thursday night.
The MEA clarified that only about 20-25 youth had gathered outside the Bangladeshi High Commission in Delhi and raised slogans in protest against the brutal killing of Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh.
Sirsa said that the national capital had handed over this problem by the previous Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government.
