Police are pressuring protesters on a sit-in near New Market to vacate the place, some of them alleged on Saturday. When told about Hakim’s statement, the protesters near New Market said they had realised that the policepressure was aimed at merging their protest with that of the Trinamul Congress. Since Wednesday, we have been requesting the police to allow us to move our dais to a corner but they have remained non-committal.”The protesters shifted their dais on Saturday morning. The protesters alleged there was a scuffle between cops and some of them when a vehicle arrived with chairs for them on Saturday afternoon. “For a moment I was scared whether there would be a repeat of the police action on protesters in Delhi.

Source: The Telegraph January 25, 2020 20:03 UTC