Police in Assam’s Nagaon district have registered instances in opposition to eight BJP employees in reference to violence that broke out throughout campaigning forward of subsequent month’s bypolls within the Samaguri Meeting constituency.
The violence occurred Tuesday morning whereas a Congress rally, led by Lok Sabha MP and former Samaguri MLA Rakibul Hussain, was transferring by way of Rupahihat.
Different Congress leaders on the rally included Rupahihat MLA Nurul Huda and Batadrava MLA Sibamoni Bora. In response to Nagaon Superintendent of Police Swapneel Deka, Huda was injured within the violence and 7 automobiles that had been a part of the rally had been broken.
“That they had gone to take part in a rally the place they raised some slogans in opposition to the BJP. A crowd gathered and there was a conflict there. We have now registered three FIRs in reference to this and eight employees from the BJP have been named as accused. They weren’t at their properties, so police have served notices to their households. However they haven’t but appeared earlier than the police,” the SP stated.
Pictures of the confrontation confirmed males wielding sticks crowding across the automobiles in a convoy that was a part of the rally.
Following the incident, Assam Congress submitted a illustration to the Election Fee of India by way of the State Election Fee, demanding the switch of SP Deka and the Officers-in-Cost of the Rupahi and Khatowal police stations, accusing them of inaction and “hobnobbing with the ruling social gathering”.
Of the 5 Assam constituencies the place bypolls shall be held subsequent month, Samaguri is the one one which was held by the Congress. The by-election was necessitated within the seat after Rakibul Hussain, who had represented the seat for 5 consecutive phrases, was elected from the Dhubri parliamentary seat in a landslide victory.
There may be hypothesis that the Congress may subject Hussain’s son Tanzil – a frontrunner of the Congress’s college students’ physique, the Nationwide College students’ Union of India – from the seat.
