Twenty-seven Kamtapur People's Party (KPP) activists jailed at the Malda Correctional Home have began an indefinite hunger strike demanding their immediate release, an official said.
Superintendent of the correctional home, Dorji Bhutia, confirmed that 27 KPP workers, jailed for various anti-establishment activities, have started their indefinite fast this morning demanding their immediate release.
KPP Central Committee Vice-President Subash Burman along with other party activists started a demonstration in support of the agitation by his jailed colleagues.
"We support their indefinite hunger strike and demand immediate release of our workers. And even if there is no result we would take this (demand) to a bigger platform," Burman said.
The KPP leader alleged that the jailed activists have been treated as regular prisoners but not as political prisoners as they should be and held the ruling TMC government in the state responsible for this.
"They (the jailed-KPP activists) are treated like regular offenders and not as political prisoners... This has changed since this government has taken charge here in the state," Burman alleged.
