KOLKATA: The junior docs on Monday marched to Lalbazar carrying roses and a reproduction of the human backbone, demanding the resignation of Kolkata Police commissioner Vineet Goyal. The protest continued until late into the evening because the docs demanded to fulfill Goyal on the protest website on BB Ganguly itself in the event that they weren’t allowed to march until Lalbazar.
Because the rally approached Lalbazar within the afternoon, the junior docs had been stopped on the BB Ganguly Avenue-Phears Lane crossing.They urged cops to take away the barricade and permit them to march until Lalbazar. They assured cops that they’d finish their rally in entrance of the police headquarters and solely the representatives will meet the police commissioner. When the cops reportedly refused to take away the barricade, the junior docs squatted on the highway and demanded Goyal pay a go to to the protest website. Until final reviews got here in, they continued with their demand to fulfill the commissioner.
Convened by the West Bengal Junior Medical doctors’ Entrance (WBJDF), docs from throughout medical schools began their Lalbazar Abjijan from Faculty Sq. on Monday afternoon. They accused the police power of a ‘botched’ investigation proper from day one. The cops had been additionally blamed for not doing sufficient to forestall the vandalism in RG Kar Hospital on Aug 14 evening.
“The place had been the cops when a mob had ransacked and attacked us on the evening of Aug 14? Now they’re stopping our peaceable march,” stated a junior physician.
The cops began making ready for Monday’s march on Sunday morning itself. A number of vans ferried the 9ft excessive guard rails that had been put up on BB Ganguly Avenue to cease the protesters. The safety outdoors the police headquarters in Lalbazar was additionally bolstered. On Monday, the positioning of the guard rails began early within the morning. Further forces from completely different divisions arrived by 9 am. Greater than 500 personnel had been deployed on BB Ganguly Avenue.
Cops put up the primary barricade on the CR Avenue-BB Ganguly Avenue crossing to cease the procession. A number of senior officers had been positioned behind the barricade. The second barricade was put up on the BB Ganguly Avenue crossing and the third one – with the excessive guard rails – a number of metres behind the second barricade. Personnel of the Fast Motion Power and reserve power had been deployed in lanes and bylanes resulting in BB Ganguly Avenue. An enormous power stopped the agitators on BB Ganguly Avenue.
That the protesting docs needed the stir to be strictly apolitical turned clear when BJP MP and former Calcutta HC decide Abhijit Ganguly was heckled when he went to specific his solidarity with the agitation round 9.15 pm.
Amidst the tussle of phrases with the cops, the docs broke right into a celebration once they heard concerning the arrest of Sandip Ghosh, the ex-principal of RG Kar Medical Faculty.
