--PCC president condemns police
attack on student activists
BHUBANESWAR:
A violent scuffle between agitating student Congress activists and police personnel
at the Congress Bhawan here on Monday left a cop seriously injured. Police took
the student activists into preventive custody, while the condition of the
injured cop was stable.
The clash was the reflection of
the police excess on student Congress activists who were staging demonstration in
front of the Chief Minister’s residence (Naveen Niwas) in the morning demanding
resignation of Higher Education Minister Badri Narayan Patra and former
Minister Raghunath Mohanty. In the meantime, a scribe of an Odia daily was
injured in the police attack.
Protesting lathicharge by the
police, the student activists blocked the road by burning tyre at Master
Canteen and tried to ablaze the City bus in front of the Congress Bhawan after
pelting stone on the bus. When the police tried to disperse the students, a violent
clash occurred. The angry mob took a havildar major on duty, Nimai Charan Sahu,
into the Congress Bhawan and assaulted him.
Later, the police personnel
entered into the Congress Bhawan and rescued the havildar from the clutches of
the student congress activists. “Nearly 10-12 activists beat me mercilessly. I
was crying in pain but helpless,” Sahu said.
Meanwhile, Pradesh Congress
Committee (PCC) president Niranjan Patnaik strongly condemned the police attack
on Chhatra Congress president Satyajit Patnaik and a scribe Subhakant Das. Addressing
the Press here, Patnaik said the State Government is trying to suppress the
voice of common people by attacking on them. The law and order situation is
deteriorating fast in the State, he added.
The PCC president demanded
stringent action against the culprits who entered into the Congress Bhawan and
damaged the property of the bhawan. “If the State Government does not take any
action against the culprits, they would take the issue into the streets,”
Patnaik said.
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