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“Communal Colour”: Bengal After Cops Accused Of Pulling Sikh Man’s Turban


BJP supporters clashed with the police at a protest in Bengal on Thursday.

Kolkata:

The Bengal authorities’s Dwelling division — with out taking any names — in the present day mentioned “a political social gathering is giving communal color” to the controversial incident of a Sikh protestor dropping his turban in a scuffle with police in Howrah on Thursday.

In a set of three tweets this afternoon, the state Dwelling division mentioned, “One political social gathering is giving communal coloration to the topic in slim, partisan curiosity in a way that Bengal doesn’t imagine in.”

Confirming its “highest respect for the Sikh panth” and declaring that Sikhs reside in Bengal in peace and concord, the house division mentioned, “A current incident when one remoted particular person received caught with one illegally carried firearm, amid agitationists in an agitation that was not licensed, is now being twisted out of context, being distorted and being given communal colors in fractious and partisan curiosity.”

Balwinder Singh, a 43-year-old former soldier, misplaced his turban in a scuffle with police whereas marching in direction of the Chief Minister’s workplace through the BJPs protest rally.

Whereas a bit on social media accused the police of pulling off Mr Singh’s turban, police shared footage and mentioned there was no try to harm spiritual sentiments and the turban fell off ‘robotically’ through the scuffle.

The controversy turned unstable on Friday, with the Shiromani Akali Dal and cricketer Harbajan Singh tweeting to demand that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee take motion towards the policemen concerned.

A Sikh delegation led by S Manjinder Singh Sirsa, president of Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Administration committee, will meet Governor Jagdeep Dhankar in the present day over the turban row. There are additionally plans to fulfill the Balwinder Singh, who has been arrested, on the Howrah police station.

BJP MP Babul Supriyo has mentioned Mamata Banerjee’s authorities meets all standards to contain Article 356 (President’s Rule) within the state. “She has made West Bengal a hub of terrorists. Mamata Banerjee’s expiry date has arrived. She’s going to get a solution within the 2021 elections. I have never seen such a merciless Chief Minister until date,” his tweet learn.

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