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Intelligence sources said the blockages, attacks against rail infrastructure and communal slogans were the distinctive stamps of the CAA protests, and is the same pattern of protests against the WAQF law (amendment)
Police vehicles allegedly set fire to members of the Indian Secular Front Duration A protest march to Kolkata in the WAQF (amendment) law, in Bhangar in South 24 Parganas District on April 14 (Image: PTI)
After Murshidabad violence as tensions Rose in another District of Western Bengal on Monday, the main sources of intelligence have discovered that protests against the WAQF (amendment) law are similar in pattern for those against the Citizenship Law (amendment) throughout India in 2019.
According to the sources, WAQF protests have a similar “tool kit”, while messaging applications such as Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp are being used for organic protests, assign roles and share instructions in real time. Encryted groups were used on these platforms to orchestrate coordinated attacks against police stations in Murshidabad of Western Bengal, they said.
The sources said CNN-NEWS18 These blockages, attacks against rail infrastructure and communal slogans were the characteristics of the CAA protests, and is the same WAQF protests. Protesters are using preposition weapons such as stones, gasoline pumps, blocking material such as bamboo tires and posts, and medical supplies, they said. Duration of Caa’s protests, the stones cache were hidden near the railroad tracks in Howrah, they added.
The sources also said that the protesters are Aimed at Hindu property storesPolice stations and rail infrastructure, all chosen to maximize community tension and attract media attention. Videos manipulated with old police brutity clips are distributed as “current atrocities” to feed anger, they said. A 2024 clip video is used to affirm that the police opened fire against the attendees of Namas; This went viral, causing disturbances in Malda, they added.
The hashtags of social networks such as ‘Bengalburning’ are being used to spread thesis narratives, while the bots and false accounts are amplifying the divisive content, the sources said. The songs such as ‘Islam Khatre Mein Hai’ (Islam is in danger) are being framed to project the “existential struggle” of a productular community, which reflects the RAA rhetoric, they said.
Foreign interference?
The sources have not ruled out the foreign interference and said that groups such as Jamate-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and Harkat-Ul-Jihad-Al-Islami (Huji) were supplying weapons, teaching and spreading since then since then since then since then since then since then since then Socklades Bangladlaad.
They also said that international organizations are using global means to amplify disturbances and are helping to spread rumors to instigate panic. This is similar to how, turning the protests of the CAA, the National Registry of Citizens (NRC) was promised as eliminating citizenship Muslims, they added. Those arrested or arrested, the protests are also being glorified as “heroes” to maintain the impulse, they added.
What is the latest?
The supporters of the Indian Secular Front (ISF) faced the police in Bhangar in the protests of the South 24 district of Bengala West Bengal 24, which caused several injuries and torches of multiple police vehicles.
The clash exploded when the police prevented the ISF supporters from heading towards Ramlila Maidan in the center of Kolkata to attend a concentration of the Anti-Waqf law (amendment) directed by the party leader and Bhangar Mla Nushad Siddique.
According to the police sources, the rallyists stopped near Bhejerhat on the Basanti road, where a large number of ISF workers had gathered from Bhangar, as well as in neighboring areas such as Minakhan and Sandshkhali.
The tension intensified when the crowd tried to cross the police barricades, which led to a clash between both sides. “Some police vehicles were burned by the protesters and some police personnel members were advanced when the agitators attacked the agents of the law,” said a senior police officer.
Eye witnesses said the police resorted to Lawicharge to disperse the protesters, since the rally in Ramlila Ground made the permission of the appropriate police, which led to at least one ISF worker suffering a head injury. The situation quickly became a spiral, which caused party activists to sit in a protest on the road, which led to a long traffic growling along the section.
A great police force was deployed, including higher officers, to control the situation. A maximum alert sounds in the nearby areas, after which the protesters then dispersed.
This follows community violence in parts of Murshidabad, including Suti, Dhulian and Jangipur, on April 11 and 12 Fata protests. At least three people died and several others were injured. The images of the affected areas showed remains loaded with stores, houses and hotels.
