Pro-CAA rally: BJP leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya detained in Kolkata
Kolkata/IBNS: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya, who were holding a pro-Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) rally, were arrested in south Kolkata on Friday.
Leaders Vijayvargiya, Mukul Roy, Sayantan Basu, Joy Prakash Majumdar, Gautam Chowdhury, Agnimitra Paul along with 450 BJP workers were detained at Tollygunge Avenue.
Following the detention, Vijayvargiya tweeted, "There was a pro-CAA rally in Kolkata. Police are taking me and Mukul Roy to their headquarters at Lal Bazar. How is it a crime to hold a rally in favour of a law passed by Parliament that I have been arrested?"
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— Kailash Vijayvargiya (@KailashOnline) February 7, 2020
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Speaking to IBNS, Paul said, "I was detained at Tollygunge Phari when I was giving press bytes. I have been taken to a police vehicle. When I asked police why they were detaining me, they said I was blocking roads which was not true. Is this democracy? They (state government) are digging their own graves."
The CAA, which aims to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi but not Muslim refugees who came to India from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh before 2015, has led to a conflict between the BJP-led Centre and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal.
The TMC government, led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has already passed an anti-CAA resolution in West Bengal assembly following the footsteps of Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan.
(Image Credit: Kailash Vijayvargiya Twitter)
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