INDIA
A video from news agency ANI showed TMC MLA Mahua Moitra struggling with a female constable of Assam Police.
A Trinamool Congress delegation which reached Silchar to assess the situation in Assam in the wake of the publication of the complete draft of the citizen's register was stopped at the airport, officials said. On the other hand, Assam Police said two officers and one worker was injured during the altercation.
A video from news agency ANI showed TMC MLA Mahua Moitra struggling with a female constable of Assam Police.
#WATCH: TMC’s Mahua Moitra seen assaulting lady constable who tried to restrain Mahua Moitra after TMC leaders were stopped at Silchar Airport. Constable received injuries. #NRCAssam pic.twitter.com/FJjNQ77ngO
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2018
A lady constable who received injuries while trying to restrain TMC's Mahua Moitra at Silchar Airport. Constable was seen pleading with Moitra to stop protesting. #aAssam pic.twitter.com/gE163x5iSK
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2018
Copies of medical reports of constables who restrained TMC leaders in Assam's Silchar. They make allegations of physical assault on them by TMC leaders pic.twitter.com/wiLcjnkq3j
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2018
Assam: Guwahati Commissioner of Police prohibits 8 TMC MPs, West Bengal Ministers&MLAs & any other person who may deliver inflammatory speeches against NRC, from entering Guwahati. No passenger carrier services including surface/air transport should carry such persons to Guwahati pic.twitter.com/A76Kvnlrm0
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2018
While the TMC leaders claimed they were manhandled, Assam DGP Kuladhar Saikia stated that two constables and one worker was also injured in the ruckus and legal action will be taken on basis of FIRs.
He told ANI: “Police have kept them inside the airport with restrictions on their movement. In the scuffle, two of our constables and 1 worker from district administration were injured. Legal actions will be taken on the basis of FIRs by injured and for violation of Section 144.”
He further stated: “We had requested the delegation of TMC leaders not to come to Silchar now as it was important for us to maintain peace in the state. Moreover,Section 144 is imposed in Cachar dist. We feared that their arrival might create differences among people
TMC members, led by senior leader Saugata Ray, protested the detention of four of his party MPs at the Silchar airport in Assam today and demanded a response from the government on it in the Lok Sabha. According to TMC MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, who is a member of the team, the police stopped them at the airport saying their visit might create trouble and manhandled them.
"It's murder of democracy. We were not allowed to go out," he said.
The TMC leaders were supposed to hold a meeting at an auditorium.
Party supremo Mamata Banerjee claimed that members of the TMC delegation, including women, were manhandled at the airport and accused the BJP of imposing "super emergency" in the country.
The BJP was exposed by this incident, she said and sought to know under which law was the TMC delegation stopped.
The TMC delegation including six MPs were kept in the VIP lounge of Kumbhigram airport here in Cachar district under Barak Valley region, the officials said.
The deputy commissioner, the SP and five magistrates were in the airport to talk to the TMC delegation.
The Cachar district administration last night issued prohibitory order under Section 144 of the CrPC.
However, district administration sources said the prohibitory order has nothing to do with the visit of the TMC delegation.
The TMC team went there at the instruction of Mamata Banerjee.
ADGP (special branch) Pallab Bhattacharya said that security has been beefed up at Silchar.
"We will take whatever measures needed for maintenance of law and order," he said.
Wondering why they were stopped, MP Roy told a TV channel, "They manhandled us including our women members. I am a heart patient. We have come here to talk to those people whose names were deleted. We are not here to create any trouble. But they have not allowed us." "BJP president Amit Shah will go to Bengal. We will not stop him," he said.
Another TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar alleged that they were stopped, and police could not show us any order in this regard.
Echoing her, fellow MP Mamatabala Devi alleged that they were pushed and manhandled by the police.
"We have come here to assess the situation and talk to those people. We are on dharna at the airport", she said.
There was no immediate reaction from the state administration regarding the TMC's allegations.
Reacting to the visit of the TMC delegation, student leader and AASU general secretary Lurinjyoti Gogoi claimed that Mamata Banerjee is playing votebank politics.
"She is trying to polarise the people of Assam and disturb the peaceful situation in the state. She should have sent the delegation before the NRC was published if she is so worried about the Bengalis and Muslims living here," he said.
"We have a chief minister here. No outside chief minister can decide the fate of the indigenous people of Assam," Gogoi said.
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh also supported the Assam government's move to stop the TMC delegation.
"The TMC government did not allow us to go Basirhat in the past. They don't give us democratic rights. They have no business to talk about democracy. They have gone there to create civil war," he said, adding "They are enacting drama".
A statement issued by the TMC in Kolkata said the party delegation comprised 6 MPs, one state minister and one MLA.
"They had not gone there to break the law. Yet, they were beaten up. Senior MPs were pushed and shoved. Female MPs were manhandled. Is this democracy? This is Super Emergency. The issue was raised in Lok Sabha. Rajya Sabha was adjourned for the day (on this issue),", the statement said.
Mamata Banerjee earlier accused the BJP-led central government of resorting to "vote-bank politics" on the NRC issue and said "Indian citizens have become refugees" in their own land.
With inputs from PTI
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