scorpio90 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Jamiat-holds-Kolkata-hostage-President-Pranab-Mukherjee-forced-to-change-route/articleshow/45322607.cms Kolkata was ambushed by a Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind rally on Saturday afternoon, putting lakhs of commuters through six hours of agony and forcing President Pranab Mukherjee's route to be changed. At least 11 policemen — including three IPS officers — were injured in brickbatting and 13 police vehicles damaged. Journalists were attacked for "intruding on the space meant for rallyists" — which was Red Road, the city's VIP thoroughfare. Taken by surprise, police simply stood by and let some 2 lakh Jamiat supporters run amok in the heart of Kolkata. Even bylanes in south and central Kolkata were clogged. For hours, police had no control over a 3sqkm area besieged by the rallyists. When the cops did try to restore order, they came under attack. News crews were roughed up, too, and a van of 24Ghanta damaged. The administration has taken a battering when it was yet to recover from the bruising battle over BJP's Amit Shah rally on Sunday. Jamiat leaders wanted to hold the meeting on the Brigade grounds (Maidan) but when Army denied permission, they brazenly took over the city. And no, they did not have permission from the fire department either although the government made such a huge issue of it for the BJP rally. The rallyists parked buses and trucks on the Maidan, in violation of the high court-imposed ban, and even parked outside Fort William, forcing Army to deploy Military Police. The "historic" gathering at the Sahid Minar grounds spilled over to the adjoining roads — Bentinck Street, JL Nehru Road, Red Road and Mayo Road — choking the business district and having a ripple effect from north to south. The 3,000-odd cops deployed turned out to be woefully inadequate for a gathering of such strength and such aggressiveness. DC-central D P Singh suffered a head injury that needed three stitches. Joint CP-traffic Supratim Sarkar and DC-south Murli Dhar Sharma, too, were injured as the mob pelted stones and turned Jamiat flagstaffs into lathis. Jamiat leader Siddiqullah Chowdhury blamed police for the violence. "There was tension when police drove a car through the rally. (Wah! Ulta chor literally kotwal ko hi daate. Doesn't police go through in between Hindu processions and rallies too as a precautionary measure?)The (police) action and combative reaction of a section of rallyists are both unwarranted. We have been holding rallies for years. This never happened. I suspect some outsiders sneaked into our rally to discredit us. They need to be punished," he said. The rallyists started streaming into the city from across Bengal since dawn, but police intelligence failed to gauge the crowd count. "We had informed police that we expected about 1-1.5 lakh people. That's why we wanted to hold the rally at Brigade grounds. The gathering on Saturday turned out to be even bigger," said Chowdhury. Many rallyists were already angry at being denied their chosen venue. Pushing and jostling led to frayed tempers. Reports of a rallyist being hit by a vehicle stoked anger. "The vehicle sped away and police did not try to stop it," said some Jamiat supporters from Basirhat. This triggered a blockade of Red Road and Mayo Road. "When police tried to remove the blockade, trouble erupted," said joint CP-HQ Rajeev Mishra. The mob first attacked a vehicle carrying the joint CP-intelligence at Red Road crossing. For a while it was a free-for-all as the mob went on the rampage. People caught in the traffic snarl blamed police's unpreparedness. "By the time senior officers stepped in to control the situation, it had already gone out of hand," said an officer who manned the control room for some time. Several people missed trains and flights. Merchant chambers cancelled meetings and ambulances were stuck in bumper-to-bumper jams. By 12.30pm, vehicles bound for Howrah and Sealdah and south-bound traffic was stuck. "It was a nightmare for me and my daughter. We had to catch the Rajdhani at Sealdah (departure 4.50pm) and reached Race Course by 2.15pm, much ahead of time. But we got stuck in the jam. Around 3pm, I got off the taxi and had to carry our two-year-old granddaughter as my daughter and husband pulled the luggage. It is 4.10pm now and we have merely crossed KC Das crossing. I am not sure if we can make it," said Oindrella Sinha of New Alipore. Till late evening, cops were huddled in a meeting at Lalbazar HQ trying to ascertain where they went wrong despite top IPS officers leading the forces. The embarrassed cops have decided to strike back and have filed two FIRs with 11 serious charges. "We are analyzing CCTV footage and our own videography and will start picking up those who instigated the violence," said an officer. "Hang the atheists of Shahbag, hang Sheikh Hasina". These are some of the slogans used in a demonstration in the heart of Kolkata. It was like 11th Aug 2011 Azad Maidan Muslim rally in Mumbai but higher in magnitude.
gslv Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Army should have made some target practice using head of these idiots.would be fun.
diga Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 not much criticism from p-sec twitteratti.. enjoying their weekend I suppose
game_changerr Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 ^^exactly ...they reply according to their convenience...for example,,,tv actress gauhar khan is slapped by some ''akhill malik''....now had the name been ajay instead of akil ,seculars of icf would have created 10 page sensational thread bashing'' bjp/rsss goons''
gslv Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 No mention in mainstream media. How secular they are. We should hand out a Nobel prize in secularism each year like Norway does in peace.
diga Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 http://www.oneindia.com/feature/mamata-banerjee-terrorism-west-bengal-pakistan-burdwan-blast-1570660.html Former RAW officer's interview.. pretty sensationalist,but implicates Mamata & Congress
Khalpat Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 ^^exactly ...they reply according to their convenience...for example' date=',,tv actress gauhar khan is slapped by some ''akhill malik''....now had the name been ajay instead of akil ,seculars of icf would have created 10 page sensational thread bashing'' bjp/rsss goons''[/quote'] And god forbid if that Ajay would have been a distant relative of a BJP MLA, M** C**d dete ye sab Modi ki by " from the time BJP has come to power these things are so common", a big conspiracy theory related to UP riot would have also been added and linked with Amit Shah during the discussion.
Cricket_Hacker Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 Apparently a TMC member was found distributing Al-Qaeda pamplets translated in Bengali for convinience
Shivaji bhonsle Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 What is Shahbag movement got to do with India? Why are they shouting that nonsense in India? Idiots.
diga Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 What is Shahbag movement got to do with India? Why are they shouting that nonsense in India? Idiots. proves that they are bangladeshis
Crookbond Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 What is Shahbag movement got to do with India? Why are they shouting that nonsense in India? Idiots. proves that they are bangladeshis People have confused Jamaat with Jamiat. The OP has no source that comments on Shahbhag were taken place and they didn't happen. He took it up from his social media echo chamber and posted it to suit a narrative. These words were used by Jamaat in a anti-Shahbhag Kolkata rally in April 2013. The OP article is about Jamiat. You know about the OP - next time, do a validation before you label people.
randomGuy Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 And god forbid if that Ajay would have been a distant relative of a BJP MLA' date=' M** C**d dete ye sab Modi ki by " from the time BJP has come to power these things are so common", a big conspiracy theory related to UP riot would have also been added and linked with Amit Shah during the discussion.[/quote'] Gauhar always looked so hot in that singing show,has to be said. BTW I read her insistance for converting his boyfriend to islam was the reason for their break up
achilles Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 Hindus are finding their voice and the Muslims don't seem to like it that much. What has my country got reduced to. Why not call an idiot an idiot. "Yeh Hindu hai, woh musalmaan hai", I mean, what are these Jamiat ppl trying to achieve here.
Raghav_12 Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 People in India treat road and public places as their own property. Every other day roads are blocked on pretext of some rally, procession or other functions causing lot of trouble to common man. Any function/procession that causes inconvenience to routine traffic or life should be allowed only in exceptional cases.
FischerTal Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 excessive Public display of religion needs to be curbed in india
Cricket_Hacker Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 How will you curb 100,000 people.There will be more rallies if you try to curb it
Vilander Posted December 1, 2014 Posted December 1, 2014 Army should have made some target practice using head of these idiots.would be fun. It would have become godhra 2.0. Country going to dogs.
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