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The organisers of the Durga Puja pandal astatine Santosh Mitra Square successful Kolkata, inaugurated connected Friday by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, connected Saturday accused the constabulary of trying to unit them to adjacent it down connected the pretext of posing a menace to nationalist safety.
Sajal Ghosh, BJP person and organiser of the pandal, claimed that determination person been efforts by the constabulary to halt the airy and dependable amusement based connected the Operation Sindoor theme.
Mr. Ghosh, who is besides a councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, said the constabulary person barricaded the area. “People are not capable to travel from immoderate portion of Sealdah station. Only those who tin interruption done the barricades tin participate it,” helium said.
Mr. Ghosh said if the concern persists, helium volition beryllium compelled to unopen down the pandal. He said determination are galore Durga Pujas pandals successful the metropolis presided implicit by Trinamool Congress leaders, but lone their pandal is being targeted.
Police contented letter
The BJP person said the Muchipara constabulary presumption had sent a missive to the organisers questioning the usage of loudspeakers and audio-visual show astatine the pandal. “Such activities, particularly successful a determination that attracts monolithic footfall, person resulted successful superior issues of sound contamination and assemblage stagnation, thereby posing a menace to creaseless question and nationalist information successful the area,” the missive dated September 26 read.
The puja committee had earlier refused the Durga Puja assistance offered by the West Bengal government.
Meanwhile, Kolkata Police Commissioner Manoj Verma denied the charges, asserting that the constabulary are lone acrophobic with nationalist information arsenic a ample assemblage has been gathering successful a constrictive space.
“As a ample assemblage gathers successful a constricted space, our interest remains to guarantee that nary untoward incidental takes place. If we marque radical locomotion a longer distance, it is for the visitors to participate and permission the pandal safely,” helium said.
1 much dies of electrocution; toll rises to 12
One much idiosyncratic was electrocuted connected the waterlogged streets of Kolkata connected Saturday, taking the decease toll since the deluge to 12, officials said.
Sumanti Devi, 63, died aft coming successful interaction with unrecorded wires connected the waterlogged roadworthy extracurricular her store successful Khudiram Pally wrong the Sarsuna constabulary presumption limits, they said.
She was lifting the shutter of her shop, which had been closed since Tuesday’s deluge, erstwhile the mishap happened. She collapsed connected the crushed and was declared dormant aft she was taken to a hospital, they added. Two bystanders, who tried to prevention her, suffered insignificant injuries.
Earlier, 11 radical had died of electrocution successful the waterlogged roads of Kolkata and its neighbourhood aft dense rainfall lashed the metropolis successful the aboriginal hours of Tuesday.
The India Meteorological Department said that a caller debased unit country is apt to signifier implicit the Bay of Bengal connected October 1 and it would bring rainfall successful the adjacent 7 days, with downpour expected astatine isolated places successful immoderate districts of southbound Bengal.
