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Narada sting: TMC holds counter march, Lefts stage demonstration
Kolkata, Mar 18 (IBNS): A day after the Left Front (LF) organized a protest rally on Narada News sting operation issue, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday held a counter march from Sealdah to Kolkata's downtown Esplanade area, claiming the sting operation footage is fake and a slander by oppositions.
TMC Secretary General Partha Chatterjee, TMC leader Javed Ahmed Khan and thousand of party supporters joined the rally here.
Meanwhile, demanding proper investigation into the sting operation issue and punishment of TMC leader and Kolkata Mayor Shovan Chatterjee, who was seen taking bribes in sting footage, the student, woman and youth wings of Left Front on Friday demonstrated in front of Kolkata Municipal Corporation headquarters at Esplanade area in Kolkata.
The youth wing of CPI-M, Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) blocked the Howrah Bridge (Rabindra Setu) on Friday afternoon and staged agitation there, on the same issue.
However, traffic in central Kolkata was disrupted for hours due to the rally, demonstration and road-blockade.
Meanwhile, intervening into the matter, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed Narada News authority to be present in the court here.
While hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which was filed demanding CBI and ED joint probe into the sting operation incident, Chief Justice Manjulla Chellur directed the Narada News authority to send its representative or counsel to the High Court on the next date of hearing, which is scheduled to be on Tuesday.
A newly launched news portal Narada News on Monday released a sting operation's video footage in New Delhi, where few TMC leaders, MPs, MLAs and ministers were shown taking bribes.
Trinamool leaders, however, claimed that the video footage was doctored.
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
Note: IBNS did not carry out the sting operation and we did not verify the video footage.
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