TMC stages Protest Against NRC Draft, Observes ‘Black Weekend’ Over 6 MPs arrest row in Silchar
TMC stages Protest Against NRC Draft, Observes ‘Black Weekend’ Over 6 MPs arrest row in Silchar
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Kolkata:  West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee –led the Trinamool Congress (TMC) will observe "black day" throughout the state on Saturday and Sunday to protest the arrest and manhandling of its 6 MPs and 2 MLAs at the Silchar airport in Assam.

The West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee who is also TMC secretary general said the party will observe "black day" in every block and district of the state.

He said that TMC condemns the way the public representatives were manhandled and arrested by the Assam police at the Silchar airport, adding MPs as well as everyone has every right to visit a place, but all rules were violated and TMC delegation was stopped.

Partha Chatterjee told reporters “This is shameful."

 Worth mention here an eight-member TMC delegation comprising six MPs, and 2MLA and a state minister was stopped at the Silchar airport when its members tried to enter Assam's Cachar district to assess the ground reality after the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was published in the north-eastern state on Monday.

“The way our MPs were stopped only proves that the BJP is trying to hide something. We will fight till the end and expose them," Chatterjee was quoted by ANI.

The TMC top gall has urged the party's district units to protest in several rallies at various parts of the state and don black badges on Saturday and Sunday.

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