Riot Management Police In Bengal’s Howrah After Violence On Ram Navami

A number of autos had been set on hearth, stones had been thrown and retailers had been ransacked as clashes between two teams broke out in West Bengal’s Howrah amid Ram Navami celebrations as we speak. Visuals confirmed a number of autos engulfed in flames and a heavy police deployment – together with riot management power – within the space.

The violence broke out when a Ram Navami procession was crossing the Kazipara locality. Quite a lot of automobiles, together with just a few police autos, had been broken through the violence and the safety personnel needed to hearth tear gasoline shells to disperse the mob.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s on a two-day sit-in protest in Kolkata in opposition to Centre’s insurance policies, known as “rioters the enemy of the nation” and mentioned these behind as we speak’s violence “is not going to be spared”.

“Those that had been concerned in as we speak’s violence is not going to be spared. I don’t assist riot mongers and think about them the enemy of the nation. The BJP has at all times focused Howrah. The opposite targets for them are Park Circus and Islampur. All people should be alert of their localities,” she warned.

Senior BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari, nevertheless, denied her prices and blamed the Trinamool authorities for the violence.

“The Chief Minister and the state administration are liable for the violence,” Mr Adhikari mentioned.

On Monday, the BJP slammed the Trinamool Congress for saying protests on March 30, the day of Ram Navami celebrations. Suvendhu Adhikari, the BJP’s chief within the state meeting, mentioned those that consider within the “sanatan tradition” will have fun Ram’s beginning anniversary. As an alternative of declaring a vacation on the day, she has introduced protests after making “fabricated and false” claims, he alleged.

Earlier within the day, Mamata Banerjee urged devotees to take out processions “peacefully”.

“I wish to request that those that are taking out processions for Ram Navami as we speak, please do however do it peacefully. Have fun peacefully and do not attempt to create violence. Do not get provoked,” Ms Banerjee mentioned from the stage on Day 2 of the dharna organised by her occasion.

The Trinamool chief started her protest in entrance of Dr BR Ambedkar’s statue on Crimson Highway space within the Bengal’s capital metropolis yesterday to protest in opposition to the Centre’s alleged “stoppage” of funds to the state for MGNREGA and different schemes of the housing and highway departments.

The day was total peaceable, barring just a few experiences of violence from throughout the nation. Some autos had been broken in Fatehpura space of Gujarat’s Vadodara metropolis on Thursday, police mentioned. Nobody was injured within the incident and the procession handed alongside its deliberate route beneath police safety, mentioned Deputy Commissioner of Police, Yashpal Jaganiya.

Final night, a police staff was attacked and a number of other of their autos had been set on hearth throughout a violent conflict between two teams in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad final night. An argument between two teams had snowballed into the conflict, which has been renamed as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. The incident came about in Kiradpura, which has a well-known Ram temple, Police Commissioner Nikhil Gupta mentioned.