West Bengal Police uses water cannon on BJP protest rally

Police on Tuesday used water cannons to disperse BJP workers who were taking out a protest rally against Mamata Banerjee-led government in Kolkata. The protest rally was being led by party MP and BJP Yuva Morcha (BJYM) national president Tejasvi Surya.

BJP was doing a march in protest against the alleged irregularities in the appointment of teachers in state-run schools.

Tejasvi Surya have claimed that more than 15 BJP Karyakartas were injured and alleged that Kolkata police didn’t provide ambulance or any transport to shift them to hospital.

“The barbaric attempt by Mamata Banerjee’s police force to curtail our constitutional freedoms has resulted in more than 15 of our karyakartas hospitalised,” said Tejasvi Surya.

Reacting sharply to this incident BJP MP Raju Bista tweeted, “The brutality of facist TMC regime in WB is such, they are unable to digest educated youths demanding their right to employment.”

The police had set up barricades to stop the protesters from reaching Bikash Bhawan and asked the protestors to stop their march. But the protestors broke through the first barricade, prompting the police to use water cannons against them.