TMC team on dharna at Silchar airport, barred from entering city
August 02, 2018 15:05
A eight-member team from the Trinamool Congress has been detained at the Silchar airport in Assam. The team which includes six TMC MPs and two MLAs was sent by West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to assess the situation in the Bengali-dominated Silchar in south Assam's Barak Valley in the aftermath of the National Register of Citizens draft.
When the team was heading to the VIP exit at the Arrivals section of the airport, they were stopped by CISF personnel and prevented from exiting the airport. The MPs said they were law makers and not law breakers, but the personnel at the airport did not allow them to exit. Last reports said they are now on dharna at the airport.
Mamata has maintained that the NRC exercise was targeted at those with Bengali surnames and would lead to a "civil war". The team is expected to go to Guwahati tomorrow to meet eminent citizens in the city.
When the team was heading to the VIP exit at the Arrivals section of the airport, they were stopped by CISF personnel and prevented from exiting the airport. The MPs said they were law makers and not law breakers, but the personnel at the airport did not allow them to exit. Last reports said they are now on dharna at the airport.
Mamata has maintained that the NRC exercise was targeted at those with Bengali surnames and would lead to a "civil war". The team is expected to go to Guwahati tomorrow to meet eminent citizens in the city.
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