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West Bengal:Youth Congress leaders protest against Centre, state

| | Mar 06, 2017, at 12:13 am
Kolkata, Mar 5 (IBNS): Kolkata-Uttar Loksabha Youth Congress under the leadership of General Secretary Sri Karmakar marched with a giant rally in the name of "Kendra-Rajya Janbedna Maha-Padyatra" on Sunday.

The movement aimed to protest against the Centre and the state governments.

The party said issued like demonetization and pointing out the deaths to the physical assault to the opposition leader of a state inside the Vidhan Sabha, and in front of the Speaker himself were the main objectives and the issues of the movement.

"We also reflected and tried to spread widely the actual face of the BJP and it's sponsored leaders related with profession like "child-trafficking" with the name of Lord Rama in the mouth, and also against the highest ever price hike of the non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) within the nation till date, and also reflected our protest strongly against the Chief Minister of the state for promoting the TET-Scam like any thing and putting the lives of the victims even in question for the lifetime," Preetom Karmakar,Secretary,West Bengal Pradesh Youth Congress said in a statement.

Among the leaders were present Rakesh Singh, Congress Youth Leader, Ajay Gupta, Congress leader, Preetom Karmakar, Rohan Mitra, Ajmal Khan, Sahdab Siddiqui, all secretaries of Pradesh Youth Congress, and many other Congress and Youth Congress leaders like Rabi Rajak, Nand Kishore and many others.

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