{"id":46560,"date":"2024-08-28T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=46560"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T09:33:58","slug":"protesters-block-train-tracks-buses-in-indias-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/protesters-block-train-tracks-buses-in-indias-west-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters block train tracks, buses in India&#8217;s West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA (Reuters): Protesters blocked train tracks, stopped buses, and shouted slogans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal on Wednesday, the latest in a series of protests that have rocked the state since the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-hospitals-on-halt-as-doctors-strike-to-protest-colleagues-rape-murder\/\">rape and murder<\/a> of a trainee doctor.<\/p>\n<p>Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters marching towards the state secretariat on Tuesday, prompting Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is in opposition in the state, to call for a 12-hour state-wide strike on Wednesday, to protest against what it said were police atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters, most of them BJP workers, blocked roads and railway tracks and forced shops to shut down on Wednesday, while authorities braced for more protests throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>A top police official said 5,000 police personnel were deployed to quell any violence across West Bengal.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters on Tuesday, many of them university students, were demanding the resignation of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a staunch opponent of Modi, for her handling of the Aug 9 rape and murder of a 31-year-old doctor in a government-run hospital in the state capital, Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0attack\u00a0on the 31-year-old doctor has caused nationwide outrage, similar to the widespread protests witnessed after a 2012 gang-rape of a 23-year-old student on a moving bus in New Delhi, with campaigners saying women continue to suffer from high levels of sexual violence despite tougher laws.<\/p>\n<p>A police volunteer has been arrested for the crime and the federal police have taken over the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA (Reuters): Protesters blocked train tracks, stopped buses, and shouted slogans in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal on Wednesday, the latest in a series of protests that have rocked the state since the rape and murder of a trainee doctor. Police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters marching towards the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":46561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20966,20965],"class_list":["post-46560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-kolkata","tag-west-bengal-bandh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46563,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46560\/revisions\/46563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}