Trinamool Congress (TMC) basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee has stated that at the moment is a “black day for Indian democracy” after he and different social gathering leaders together with Derek O’Brien and Mahua Moitra had been launched by the police on the intervention evening of Tuesday and Wednesday, practically three hours after being detained throughout a sit-in at Krishi Bhawan in Delhi.

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Speaking to the media after his launch from the transient detention, Banerjee stated, “You (BJP) are snatching away the rights of the people of West Bengal because you lost in the state. BJP has lost all elections in West Bengal, that is why they have stopped the money of the people.”

The TMC chief has referred to as for a marketing campaign ‘Raj Bhavan Abhiyan’ in Kolkata on Thursday towards the atrocity. “Will carry out a campaign ‘Raj Bhavan Abhiyan’ against manhandling done by Police, on October 5 at 3 pm with 1 lakh people at Raj Bhavan. Will also meet the Governor and hand over the 50 lakh letters to him,” Banerjee stated.

While accusing the Delhi Police of manhandling the MPs and MLAs together with ladies, Banerjee stated that the incident will stand for example of ‘New India’ as public representatives had been “dragged and manhandled” by Delhi Police and journalists questioning the federal government had been booked below the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA).

“The way Delhi Police officials behaved today… MPs were pulled by their hair and dragged out. An MP is elected by lakhs of people. BJP’s Zamindar in Raj Bhavan is nominated. Dragging and manhandling them… Mahua Moitra, Dola Sen, the way they were grabbed by their hands and legs and dragged into police vans, people will reply to it,” he stated.

Further difficult the ruling BJP forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Banerjee stated, “In the next six months people will teach you a lesson. People of the country will exercise their power and today’s event will remain a black day. Even the British did not behave so badly as the Delhi Police did today.”

“Journalists are being booked under different sections, public representatives are being manhandled, corrupt people are being inducted and their sins are being washed away and the rapists of Bilkis Bano are being honoured,” he additional stated.

The Delhi Police had detained round 30 leaders of the TMC on Tuesday throughout their protest demanding the discharge of MGNREGA funds. The TMC delegation, led by Abhishek Banerjee, together with social gathering lawmakers, has been stationed within the nationwide capital since Monday. They held a two-hour dharna on the Rajghat on Gandhi Jayanti earlier than being evicted by the police.

On Tuesday, staged a protest at Jantar Mantar and later took out a march to the Rural Development Ministry on the Krishi Bhawan, the place they’d an appointment with Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.

Read right here: Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O’Brien among TMC MPs detained by Delhi Police following dharna at Krishi Bhawan

However, TMC leaders claimed that the minister refused to satisfy them after a wait of one-and-a-half hours saying she wouldn’t meet greater than 5 representatives. The TMC leaders, who had introduced bundles of letters addressed to the prime minister and the agricultural growth minister, refused to go away until Jyoti met them.

“She met BJP leaders and made us wait. At 8.30 pm, she left through the back door,” he stated, including that the Centre ought to present “papers” associated to the rip-off they’ve alleged.

The protest continued until 9pm, after which they had been detained by the police and evicted from the ministry premises. The TMC leaders had been taken to Utsav Sadan in Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar. “Over two dozen TMC supporters detained, including Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien”, stated a senior police officer.

(With inputs from companies)