Farmers Movement Archive

Blood donation camp held at Sutgirni Chowk

Aurangabad: Members of the Prahar Janshakti party organised a blood donation camp at Sutgirni Chowk in Aurangabad city on Wednesday, attracting the attention of a large number of commuters passing by the area. Earlier, they had planned agitation followed by blood donation camp in front of union minister Raosaheb Danve’s house. However, police denied permission to the members for holding any kind of protest or gathering in front of the union minister’s house, but the members still managed to give slip to the police and gathered in front of the minister’s house on Wednesday afternoon. Not taking any chance, heavy bandobast was already deployed at the minister’s bungalow. Party’s Kunal Raut said, “To register our support for ongoing farmers’ agitation in Delhi and also to protest against union government failing to address farmers’ demand of repealing the newly-introduced farm laws, we first held an agitation in front Danve’s residence at Shivajinagar in the city.” Members of this party roped in blood donation bank’s van for holding a camp at the venue of agitation. It was only after the police warned the blood bank staffers of legal consequences, they backed out and went to Sutgirni chowk where they parked the van on roadside and held a symbolic blood donation in support of the farmers protesting in Delhi. Jawahar nagar police inspector Santosh Patil said that though none of the agitators have been arrested, the incident has been taken on record. “The agitation went off peacefully and police did not had to use force to handle the situation,” said Patil.

The Times of India

2020-12-11

Aurangabad