Kolkata: BJP holds rally to Lalbazar to protest against IAF corporal's killing
When police stopped the protesters by setting up barricades near Ganguram in central Kolkata, BJYM supporters tried to break those and engaged in a scuffle with the police force there. Police detained few agitators from the spot to bring the situation under control.
Actor-turned BJP leader Rupa Ganguly, who led the rally, and other BJP supporters hosted a sit-in-demonstration at Bentinck Street.
An Audi Q-7 car, which was registered in the name of a company- Mussadi Business Pvt Ltd- owned by former RJD MLA and presently TMC leader Md. Sohrab's elder son Ambia Sohrab, allegedly broke police barricades at Red Road and hit Airman Abhimanyu Gaud on Wednesday early morning. The airman, a 21-year-old Air Force drill instructor, was killed and the accused driver of the car is still absconding.
Meanwhile, denying Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s involvement into the incident, TMC Rajya Sabha MP and party's National spokesperson Derek O'Brien on Saturday said, "Md. Sohrab was Left Front government's MLA in 2006 and he is not a TMC leader. He is a minor political activist. The devil, who was reportedly driving the car, has no connection with the TMC."
(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)
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