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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