East Bengal, Mohun Bagan Fans To Walk Together In Solidarity For RG Kar Rape And Murder Victim
The Durand Cup Kolkata Derby between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan Super Giant on August 18 was cancelled due to the prevailing unrest in the city.
Kolkata: After the a whole lot-awaited Durand Cup Kolkata Derby between East Bengal and Mohun Bagan Surely massive Great changed into cancelled amid the good protests following the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee scientific expert at the RG Kar Clinical Institution and Sanatorium on August 9, fans of each golf methods vowed to come again jointly and make ‘their voices heard’ in cohesion for the sufferer.
The choice to cancel the in shape changed into taken following a meeting between the Kolkata Police officials and organisers of the tournament. On Saturday, the Indian Clinical Affiliation on the complete acknowledged as for a 24-hour nationwide strike to protest the heinous crime.
Around one lakh human beings are predicted to be mighty in as regards to the sixty six,000-ability stadium, a little bit of after each Mohun Bagan and East Bengal fan golf methods on the complete acknowledged as for protests. “Sarkar maath atakale amra raasta atkabo (If the authorities stops us to enter the stadium, we'll block the roads,” reads a poster jointly issued by means of Mohun Bagan and East Bengal fan golf methods.
Terming this a ‘Black Day’ for Kolkata Maidan, Prasenjit Sarkar, president of the Mariners’ Base Camp – Ultras Mohun Bagan referred to fans from each the golf methods will subscribe to jointly for “one famous intent: justice for RG Kar sufferer.”
“The authorities has dealt a severe blow to soccer by means of calling off the derby. The authorities’s action has shown a favor to impose an autocratic rule, and we is not going to stand by means of it silently,” Sarkar informed PTI. “Day after at present time, Mohun Bagan and East Bengal fans will subscribe to for a intent, and no you are going to have the capacity to accomplish us from our voices being heard. There shall be heaps at streetlevel opposite the stadium.
“Politics should never be allowed within the stadium. This time we'll arise jointly for a bigger intent. Jointly, with tifos and banners, we'll demand justice. They are going to are making an try out to silence us, but we is surely not going to let our voices go unheard,” he extra.
Rabi Shankar Sen of ‘East Bengal the True Electrical vigour’ also referred to they'll come in big numbers and reach in front of the stadium’s VIP gate.
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