Uttarakhand: Karan Mahara expressed regret over the clash of Youth Congress members with journalists, blamed the police
The matter of clash of Youth Congress members with journalists in Dehradun on Wednesday is gaining momentum. Journalists are very angry on this matter. In fact, yesterday Youth Congress marched to the Secretariat over rising unemployment, drug addiction, civic and panchayat elections. Youth Congress workers and leaders who had come to surround the Secretariat in large numbers were stopped by the police by putting up barricades on Subhash Road.
Youth Congress members clash with journalists: Here Congressmen climbed the barrier and started creating ruckus while shouting slogans of Nasha Nahi Rojgar Do. After this, the police took many leaders into custody and took them to the police line. At that time, the final match of the cricket tournament was going on in the police line by the Press Club. Cabinet Minister Saurabh Bahuguna had arrived as the chief guest in the final. Here a ruckus broke out between the Congressmen and journalists who were taken into police custody.
Incident happened during cricket match in police line: Journalists had appealed to maintain peace calling it a private event, due to which Congress workers got angry. All this happened in the presence of Congress state president Karan Mahara. At present, Mahara’s reaction has come to the fore regarding this matter. He has expressed regret over this incident. He said that the incident that happened in the police line on Wednesday is unfortunate. He has blamed the police administration for this incident.
Karan Mahara held the police responsible: Karan Mahara said that like every time, yesterday also the police administration took him and the Congress workers to the police line. As it always happens that the police makes the protesters sit on the stairs there, after that action is taken. But yesterday the Congressmen did not know that the journalists’ program was going on in the police line. Perhaps the journalists also did not know that the police would bring the Congress workers here after taking them into custody. During this time, this incident happened amid the commotion and misunderstanding.
Karan Mahara clarified about the incident: Congress state president Karan Mahara said that if anyone’s feelings have been hurt by this incident, then he expresses his deep sorrow for it. While clarifying, Mahara said that if something serious happens, then the journalist colleagues take it forward and if injustice is done to a journalist, then the opposition stands with him at that time. In such a situation, harmony between the opposition and journalists is very important for democracy. Therefore, this unfortunate incident should not have happened. He has held the police administration responsible for this incident.
