Jignesh Mevani, Umar Khalid will speak in Mumbai: Student leader
January 04, 2018  14:56
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Chhatra Bharti, the independent student organisation that had arranged Jignesh Mevani and Umar Khalid's lectures in Mumbai's Bhaidas Hall in suburban Vile Parle today, claims that two leaders will deliver speeches in the city soon.

Speaking to Prasanna D Zore/Rediff.com, Chhatra Bharti's Mumbai president, Sachin Bansode, said the student organisation will announce the details later this evening at a press conference.
 
Khalid, a student activist from Jawaharlal Nehru University and, Mevani, an elected legislator from Gujarat's Vadgam were scheduled to speak at 11 am and 2 pm today respectively at Bhaidas Hall.
 
Bansode said that the Mumbai police denied permission to both the leaders, who have now been booked for spreading 'communal disharmony' by the Pune police in the wake of the violence at Bhima-Koregaon in Pune on January 1.
 
"The police were informed four days ago about this event and Mevani and Umar Khalid's presence at the event. We had permission from the officials of Bhaidas Hall and it was going to be a private meeting. This was not organised at some public ground. But just when they were all set to deliver their speeches today, the police served me a notice under Section 149," Bansode said.
 
"We don't understand what the violence in Bhima-Koregaon has got to do with an event in Mumbai?" Bansode added, who, along with scores of Chhatra Bharati students were detained at various police stations this afternoon.
 
Bansode said that Chhatra Bharti members staged protests at the Juhu police station after he and Dutta Dhage, Chhatra Bharti's President, were detained.  "We were beaten up inside the police station and my left hand has suffered injuries," Bansode said.
 

Image: Chhatra Bharti's Mumbai president, Sachin Bansode.
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