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COI-ML bandh in WB affects life, 162 arrested
Siliguri, Feb 10: Normal life was today affected during a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Communist Organisation of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal, officials said.
Siliguri, Feb 10: Normal life was today affected during a dawn-to-dusk bandh called by the Communist Organisation of India (Marxist-Leninist) in Darjeeling and Jalpaiguri districts of West Bengal, officials said.
Shops, markets, business establishments, educational institutions, banks and post offices in these two districts mostly remained closed and private vehicles were off the roads. State owned North Bengal state transport buses were plying as per schedule. The COI(ML) had called the bandh demanding 'immediate intervention' of the state government to reopen 30 tea garden in the two districts, most of which had declared lock out or abandoned by the garden management during the last six months, COI-ML central committee secretary Kanu Sanyal said here. According to Jalpaiguri Superintendent of Police Siddhnath Gupta, the bandh had no impact in tea gardens of these two districts.
Though there was no untoward incident in Jalpaiguri district till noon, 12 bandh activists were arrested for trying to implement the bandh forcefully, Gupta said.
Darjeeling district magistrate H Mohon said over phone that the bandh had no impact in three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling district. Life in Siliguri sub-division of the district, however, was affected, he said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Siliguri Rajeev Mishra told reporters that 150 persons including few women were arrested for trying to enforce the bandh.
Shops, markets, business establishments, educational institutions, banks and post offices in these two districts mostly remained closed and private vehicles were off the roads. State owned North Bengal state transport buses were plying as per schedule. The COI(ML) had called the bandh demanding 'immediate intervention' of the state government to reopen 30 tea garden in the two districts, most of which had declared lock out or abandoned by the garden management during the last six months, COI-ML central committee secretary Kanu Sanyal said here. According to Jalpaiguri Superintendent of Police Siddhnath Gupta, the bandh had no impact in tea gardens of these two districts.
Though there was no untoward incident in Jalpaiguri district till noon, 12 bandh activists were arrested for trying to implement the bandh forcefully, Gupta said.
Darjeeling district magistrate H Mohon said over phone that the bandh had no impact in three hill sub-divisions of Darjeeling district. Life in Siliguri sub-division of the district, however, was affected, he said.
Additional Superintendent of Police Siliguri Rajeev Mishra told reporters that 150 persons including few women were arrested for trying to enforce the bandh.
The CPI (M) and its trade union wing CITU in particular were opposing the bandh terming it as 'unreasonable and irresponsible.'
Bureau Report