congress: Congress workers, cops clash during protest at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata

A scuffle broke out between the police and Congress staff when the latter protested in entrance of the Governor’s Home on Thursday afternoon. The Congress staff have been detained from exterior the Governor’s Home, the place they staged a protest in assist of occasion chief Rahul Gandhi who’s being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the Nationwide Herald case.

“We’re protesting in opposition to the continual harassment of our chief Rahul Gandhi in New Delhi, who has been known as by the ED for 3 consecutive days at the moment,” a protester stated.

The police took the protesters to the police headquarters at Lalbazar.

In the meantime, former Union minister and senior Congress chief Renuka Chowdhury on Thursday was seen grabbing the collar of a police officer throughout protests in Hyderabad over the identical concern.

A number of incidents of protests between Congress staff and the police have been reported from many elements of the nation. Protests have been held in Delhi, Jammu, Chandigarh, Guwahati, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram and different cities.