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An anti-encroachment thrust successful Kolkata turned convulsive connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) midnight arsenic protesters, governmental leaders, locals staged protests against police and cardinal forces carrying retired bulldozer successful the Jadavpur area.
At slightest 2 CPI(M) leaders were arrested, including Srijan Bhattacharya and seasoned person Sujan Chakraborty. Multiple protesters were injured and astatine slightest 2 sustained head injuries, they were rushed to the adjacent KPC Medical College successful Jadavpur.
State Congress leaders person besides joined the protests. Many of the protesters were seen lying down successful beforehand of the bulldozers arsenic a signifier of protest.
Late connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) night, multiple bulldozers razed down shanties, makeshift shops, and hawkers’ stalls connected the Jadavpur Station Road country arsenic protestors gathered astir the authorities and raised slogans against the action. A immense assemblage gathered astir the country arsenic protests raged past midnight, which started around 7 p.m. connected Sunday (June 7, 2026).
When the protests escalated, police besides baton charged many, including students and activists. A massive number of cardinal forces and State constabulary were contiguous astatine the location. Rapid Action Forces were besides deployed.
“These fascist forces are doing bulldozer authorities here. Not conscionable State authorities, but railway officials are besides getting included. This is their hallmark of BJP-RSS politics. This is besides affecting the system and snatching the livelihood of the poorest of the poor,” CPI(M) State secretary Mohammad Salim told The Hindu on Monday (June 8, 2026). He further added that determination was a enactment bid connected the demolition drive, but the authorities inactive carried retired the drive.
Before the elections they came with flowers, aft the elections they came with bulldozers, Mr Salim added. He besides said that eviction without due rehabilitation cannot beryllium accepted and added that they volition proceed to protest against the constabulary atrocities connected Monday (June 8, 2026) and Tuesday (June 9, 2026).
This is the 2nd clip that bulldozers person been deployed successful the area. The first-time protesters gathered astir the area, raised slogans, and the bulldozers had rolled backmost connected their enactment until it came backmost on Sunday (June 7, 2026).
Before being arrested Mr. Chakraborty said that the “double engine” BJP authorities has declared a warfare against its ain economically weaker citizens.
“Congress has pledged to basal by the hawkers successful aboriginal protests wherever the authorities attempts to snatch distant their livelihoods successful this manner,” an authoritative connection from the State Congress said. They besides said that galore of their leaders and workers were injured owed to constabulary action.
Meanwhile, State Minister and elder BJP person Dilip Ghosh said that amerciable encroachments by “a fewer radical are disrupting the lives of citizens. They have to think of alternate spaces. Government is besides looking for alternative, but thousands of specified encroachers can’t be provided with places.”
Since the caller authorities has travel to powerfulness successful West Bengal, monolithic anti-encroachment drives person been undertaken crossed the State. Hawker stalls connected railway stations person been 1 of the largest deed sectors of the bulldozer drives. The actions person travel nether disapproval from some absorption parties, netizens, and the communal radical of the State.
