Video: Protest against Mamata Banerjee's speech at Oxford University

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's speech at Kellogg College, Oxford University was disrupted by SFI protesters. The demonstrators questioned Mamata on issues of post-poll violence and the RG Kar hospital financial scandal. The protesters claimed Mamata lied in her speech and demanded proof of social development in West Bengal. The administration intervened, asking the protesters to leave, allowing Mamata to continue her address.

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00:00A protest against Chief Minister Mamata at Oxford University left back SFI staged protest

00:05against Mamata Banerjee.

00:06The stir was during Mamata's Oxford University speech.

00:10The SFI protesters claim Mamata lied in the speech.

00:13The SFI says, asked Mamata to give proof for social development and they say that they

00:17are not allowed to protest, cops were instead called in.

00:25The West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee while addressing the Kellogg College, Oxford

00:29University in London, was interrupted suddenly by a group of protesting students who tried

00:33to disrupt her speech by raising questions on issue of post-pole violence and the RG

00:38Corps College and hospital financial scandal.

00:41My colleague Suryagini is joining me on the phone line with more details.

00:44Suryagini, give us more details on what this protest was about.

00:47There were SFI protesters claiming that Mamata lied in the speech.

00:50What lie are they talking about?

00:52What issues did they raise?

00:54Well, yesterday when the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, she was speaking, she was making

00:58her speech at Kellogg College in Oxford University, we saw chaos had erupted over there when students

01:07of the SFI international unit or rather the UK unit, they were seeing, you know, protesting

01:13and, you know, raising questions and interrupting the Chief Minister's speech inside the venue

01:23where Mamata Banerjee was making her speech.

01:25The SFI, you know, student work, student leaders rather, they were, they interrupted the speech

01:33on RG Corps issue and also on, you know, like on investment issues in the state of West

01:40Bengal.

01:41However, the Chief Minister, you know, she replied back that, she asked them, you know,

01:47not to, you know, do anything that will demean the university's name and, you know, and eventually

01:56the SFI, you know, workers were asked to leave from that particular spot by the administration

02:02that was conducting the speech and, you know, the speech went, continued as per its schedule.

02:09So, we did see, you know, chaos at the venue wherein SFI protesters and some other members

02:19of, you know, over there at the, of the audience who, you know, questioned Mamata Banerjee

02:25and interrupted her speech but eventually that, you know, got cooled down and Mamata

02:31Banerjee finished her speech.

02:33Back to you.

02:34Thanks Suryagini for bringing us those details on that story.

02:36The SFI protesters heckling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during her speech, asking

02:40her for proof of development and also raking up the RG Corps incident and the post-war violence

02:45in West Bengal.

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