Around 50 members of Sikh community have taken out a protest rally within the city condemning the alleged assault of a Sikh man and pulling off his turban by police during a BJP march to the state secretariat at Howrah in West Bengal.
The rallyists shouted slogans in Bengali on Friday night demanding an evidence from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee about the October 8 incident involving the 43-year- old Sikh man Balwinder Singh from whom a loaded pistol was recovered by police during the BJP Yuva Morcha rally to the state secretariat on October 8.
“CM Mamata Banerjee please explain why the turban of a Sikh has been pulled by your police. you ought to explain or leave the chair,” the rallyists chanted on Central Avenue near Esplanade Crossing.
The rallyists also carried posters with an equivalent demands written thereon .
“We are aggrieved over the way a member of our community has been treated by the lawmakers. We demand punishment of the cops who committed such act,” Surinder Singh, one among the protesters, said, adding aggrieved members of the community in city assembled to voice protests and that they don’t belong to any party .
Controversy erupted on Friday over the alleged assault of the Sikh man and pulling his turban during the Nabanna rally in Howrah, but the police said the person was carrying a firearm which his headgear “had fallen off automatically within the scuffle that ensued”.
The BJP accused the Trinamool Congress government of injuring the emotions of Sikhs.
The incident drew wide social media attraction after cricketer Harbhajan Singh posted on Twitter, tagging Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, which read: “Please check out the matter. This just isn’t done.”
