01-15 March 2020 The Asian Independent

24 01-03-2020 to 15-03-2020 WORLD
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Shah reaches Kolkata
amid BLACK FLAG
protest by Left, Cong
Kolkata : Amid protests and black flag
demonstrations by Left parties and the
Congress, Union Home Minister Amit
Shah arrived here on a day-long visit on
Sunday. He will address a BJP rally at the
Sahid Minar Maidan and also inaugurate
the Special Composite Group Complex of
New Delhi : The Delhi
Police on Sunday imposed prohibitory
orders in Shaheen
Bagh area in southeast Delhi
and deployed a large number of
security personnel in the area.
A senior police officer said
these were precautionary measures.
Shaheen Bagh has been
the epicentre of anti-
Citizenship (Amendment) Act
protest, wherein women and
men have organised a sit-in on
a road since December 15 last
year. Police said that Section
144 of the Criminal Procedure
Code was imposed in Shaheen
Bagh area near Jamia Millia
Islamia. Section 144 empowers
an executive magistrate to issue
orders in case nuisance or danger
to public peace is apprehended.
Though its scope is
wider, the Section is often used
to prohibit assembly of five or
more persons when unrest is
anticipated.
The heavy police deployment
comes in the wake of a
call by a right-wing group,
Hindu Sena, to clear the
Shaheen Bagh road on March
1. The Sena has since called off
its proposed protest against the
anti-CAA agitation in Shaheen
Bagh after police intervened on
Saturday.
Joint Commissioner of
Police Devesh Chandra
National Security Guard (NSG).
Carrying placards and posters reading
"Amit Shah go back", Left activists staged
a black flag demonstration outside gate
number one of the Netaji Subhas Chandra
Bose International Airport soon after the
BJP leader's flight landed. As Shah was
Prohibitory orders in Delhi's Shaheen
Bagh, posse of police deployed
Srivastava said that police
deployment and prohibitory
restrictions were precautionary
measures. "Heavy police
deployment in Shaheen Bagh is
a precautionary measure. Our
aim is to maintain law and
order and prevent any untoward
incident," Srivastava said.
The Delhi Police move comes
in the backdrop of violence in
northeast Delhi that resulted
into the death of 41 persons and
injuries to over 200 others.
Hundreds of men and
women, some in 'burqas' and
many accompanied by children,
have occupied a nearly
one km stretch of a six-lane
highway passing through
Shaheen Bagh to connect Delhi
and neighbouring Noida in
Uttar Pradesh to protest against
the new citizenship law and a
proposed citizens' register that
have brought hundreds of thousands
of people onto the streets
across India.
Violent demonstrations have
rocked the country since
December 12 after Prime
Minister Narendra Modi's government
enacted the
Citizenship (Amendment) Act
(CAA), which aims to grant citizenship
to six-non-Muslim
minorities -- Hindu, Sikh,
Parsi, Jain, Christian and
Buddhist -- who migrated to
India on or before December
31, 2014 from Bangladesh,
Pakistan and Afghanistan.
welcomed by senior BJP leaders including
Mukul Roy and Babul Supriyo, the CPI-Mled
Left party cadres held noisy protests at
the intersection of Jessore Road and VIP
Road close to the airport. A number of
other protest rallies and gatherings are
being held in various parts of the city. A
large number of slogan shouting Left
activists carrying black flags also assembled
close to Park Circus, where a group of
women have been holding a sit-in protest
since January 7. Led by Left Front legislature
party leader and CPI-M lawmaker
Sujon Chakraborty, another rally was taken
out in the Santoshpur area of south
Kolkata. "It is a shame for us that Amit
Shah, whose hands are soaked with blood
in the Delhi violence, dares to come to
Kolkata soon after the riots there. Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee may have rolled
the red carpet for him, but the youths, students,
Left workers and democracy-loving
people will show him black flags,' said
Chakraborty. A Left leader said the protests
are being held at nine-points in the city.
The Congress and its mass arms -
Chhattra Parishad, Mahila Congress and
Yuva Congress - have also organised
protest demonstrations.
2 cargo trains
collide in MP, several
feared trapped
Singrauli (Madhya Pradesh) : Several railway staff are
feared trapped after two freight trains collided in Madhya
Pradesh's
Singrauli district
on
Sunday.
The railway
officials
and police
have reached
the spot and a
rescue operation
was
underway.
The freight
trains of the
NTPC plant
are reported to
have collided
head on due to
which the
coaches of
both the trains
were badly
damaged.
According
to information
received from
the police control room, the two trains collided head on in the
Baidhan police station area. One of the freight train was loaded
with coal, while the other coming from the other side was empty.
The staff of both the trains are feared to be trapped as relief
and rescue work was in progress.
Sources say that there is a single rail line to carry coal to the
NTPC plant. And, only one train can ply at a time. However, on
Sunday, two trains were moved to the same track which caused
the head on collision.