Hummingbird News Desk
KRISHNAGAR, 12 MAY: Two groups of BJP workers fought each other in front of Union Minister of State for Education, Dr Subhas Sarkar when he came out from Kalyani AIIMS after attending a programme today.
The tussle turned violent when the journalists and photographers went there to take photographs. A group of irate BJP workers attacked the photographers and beat them up in front of the minister. Three journalists were injured during the attack.
Later, police intervened and arrested three workers based on the complaint lodged by the journalists with the Kalyani police.
For the last few days, some local youths who reportedly belong to the BJP have engaged in protest demonstrations in front of Kalyani AIIMS with demands that local youths be given priority in employment. They alleged the AIIMS authority is recruiting people from other districts especially from Bankura district while local youths are debarred from getting any employment in the AIIMS.
Trouble broke out when Dr Sarkar, a gynaecologist and board member of AIIMS Kalyani reached there to attend a programme. The agitators sat in front of the main gate of AIIMS and when he came out after attending a programme, the agitators gheaoed him and sat in front of his car. The BJP worker who accompanied Dr Sarkar got involved in verbal altercation with the agitators which led to a clash between them.
When asked, BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar said it was not the BJP’s stance to beat up journalists.
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