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Smriti Irani arrested for road blockade

Posted On :02/07/2010
Smriti Irani
Smriti Irani was arrested while protesting fuel price hike.
Kolkata, 2 July: BJP Mahila Morcha President Smriti Irani and West Bengal party chief Rahul Sinha were arrested yesterday along with 170 workers for blocking roads at Dharmatala while protesting against fuel price hike.

Altogether 172 BJP workers, including Irani and Sinha, were arrested for blocking the busy road, police sources said.

The party had given a call for a one-hour road blockade at Dharmatala and Shyambazar to protest against the petro price increase.

The state BJP president later alleged that police lathicharged party workers at Shyambazar in which two were injured.

He said that BJP workers would gherao the Jorasanko police station today in protest against the incident.


(PTI)
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shakuntrivedi  - trivedi     |122.163.6.xxx |2010-07-02 18:54:16
This is an injustice to lathicharge on party workers while they were trying to protest price hike .Fuel Price increased not only for BJP. but for all commeners (without back bone )who will suffer badly with this inflation.
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