"Today, about 4,000 police forces were deployed on the road to keep the city of Calcutta active during the strike".
Kolkata is a busy city. And I am an ordinary citizen of this Calcutta city. Politically, the Left and the Congress party on Thursday called for a general strike across the country. As a result, the movement of ordinary people has been disrupted.
They called the strike in protest of several policies, including the central government's labor and agricultural laws, and demanded seven points, a press conference said.
However, adequate police were deployed in different parts of the city to keep the public life of the people of Calcutta running. However, they had made a plan to deploy the police from Wednesday night.
They also said that they had deployed additional police force at six other places, including four garages under Kolkata Municipality, that night. Police officials said that additional arrangements have been made in advance so that municipal vehicles can travel without any hindrance in the service of the general public.
Patrol vans were deployed at various important places of the city from the night so as not to create chaos anywhere in the city. Regarding the strike, police officials said that the name of the strike could not be allowed to cause unrest anywhere in the city.
Regarding the strike, police officials said that the name of the strike could not be allowed to cause unrest anywhere in the city. As a result, adequate police force has been deployed in different parts of the city.
Police pickets have been set up at about 405 places in Kolkata to prevent those who support and oppose the strike from closing their shops. Police officials will be deployed in these pickets from 5 am, they said.
They also said that there will be 4-5 policemen with one police officer in each market of the city. A total of about 4,000 police personnel, including senior officers, have been deployed on the streets.
They also made an extra arrangement that a team of 8 police personnel was kept in reserve at each police station in Kolkata so that they could understand the situation and reach the spot quickly.