Protests by Opposition and strike by government employees keeps police on its toes in West Bengal

Members of Students’ Federation of India (SFI) activists being detained by police throughout their march in the direction of West Bengal Legislative Assembly to protest in Kolkata on Friday
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Protests organised by the Opposition events in West Bengal and a strike known as by a bit of employees of the State government on Friday stored police and the administration on their toes.

While the government employees staged an indication, demanding DA (dearness allowance) parity with the Union government employees, the supporters of the Students Federation of India (SFI) held protests over the alleged recruitment rip-off. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters laid siege on the headquarters of the State Health Department over the deaths attributable to adenovirus an infection.  

The members of SFI, who held gathered at Sealdah and Howrah railway stations, and marched in the direction of the West Bengal Assembly. The police had a tricky time when the SFI supporters reached the Assembly gates and tried to scale it. The Assembly was in session and the police personnel have been taken off guard once they reached and began shouting slogans. The police had denied permission to the SFI to take out the rally. Communist Party of India (Marxist) State Secretary Md. Salim stated that college students don’t want permission to carry rallies towards corruption. 

The scenario had turned risky close to Swastha Bhawan, the headquarters of the State Health Department in the Salt Lake space, when the BJP supporters tried to march in the direction of the workplace. Amid the scuffle between the BJP supporters and the police, BJP’s Mahila Morcha chief Tanuja Chakraborty and get together MLA Agnimitra Mitra alleged that they have been pushed by the police and sustained accidents.

Protesting BJP supporters have been detained and taken away from the venue in ambulances introduced by the police. State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar stated that whereas the police allowed the SFI supporters to march until the Assembly gates, they used drive towards the BJP members. 

On the opposite hand, a bit of government employees noticed a strike demanding a parity of Dearness Allowance ( DA) with Union government employees. The strike was supported by the political events in the Opposition, together with the Left events, Congress and the BJP. 

The protesting employees held demonstrations outdoors the West Bengal government places of work comparable to Writer’s Building, Bikash Bhavan, Khadya Bhavan, Swastha Bhavan, and the Kolkata Municipal Corporation. Despite warnings issued by the government, the attendance in the government places of work was skinny. The functioning of government places of work was severely impacted by the strike.

According to an order issued by the State Finance Department, no informal depart or every other type of depart for absence both in the primary half of the day or in the second half or for the entire day shall be granted to any worker on March 10.

“Absence of employees on that day will be treated as dies-non (break in service) and no salary will be admissible unless such absence is covered by hospitalisation of the employees or if there is bereavement in the family, severe illness and absence continuing prior to March 9,” the order issued on Thursday stated.

Later in the day, the West Bengal government stated that there was no influence on the traditional functioning of places of work of the State government. “Action will be initiated against employees who have willfully absented themselves today from work,” stated the government in a press launch.

In the districts there have been a number of situations the place supporters of Trinamool Congress tried to implement that government places of work and academic establishments ought to stay open ensuing in clashes and scuffle with protesting employees.

Trinamool Congress common secretary Abhishek Banerjee whereas collaborating in a government occasion stated that State government employees have a proper to protest however folks of the State have rejected the tradition of bandh and strikes. 

In one other improvement, there was an trade of phrases between Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari and State’s Irrigation Minister Partha Bhowmick on the ground of the Assembly.