Nagpur: Two groups of social and political activists almost ended on Sunday at the closing of the red light area (Ganga Jamuna) and police barricades that place.
The police had to act as a buffer at Ganga Jamuna Cement Road to avoid clashes, the situation was rather like in 2015, to stop prostitution.
One side road traffic remains affected for more than a few hours with the police handling rival groups.
Urban cell president NCP Jwala Dhote residents, Ganga Jamuna Sex Workers and Abha Pande, Secretary General of the State Party, raised slogans against their respective campaigns divided by their goals for brothel operations.
Dhote, who represents sex workers and residents of Ganges Jamuna, have gone to the red light area to observe Rakshabandhan, follow in the footsteps of his father Jambuwantrao Dhote, an activist Firebrand who supports the rights of sex workers.
This was the second visit of Dhote in the area after August 15 when he was forcibly removed the barikade installed by the police on August 11 to stop visitors to enter the brothel.
Pande, an independent Canporator of the adjacent area also, reached the place with his supporters.
He claimed to have reached the location to tie Rakhis to the police deployed at Ganges Jamuna.
The drama was opened when Dhote, along with residents and sex workers from Ganga Jamuna, set foot on the cement road where the group was almost faced by Pande and his supporters.
While the residents of Ganga Jamuna rose behind Dhote, Pande’s supporters raised the slogan to support the police action to close the place.
Dhote said economic sex workers economically cannot approach the court every time to seek justice against the police highhandedness.
The Ganga Jamuna red light area developed here since the last 300 years, many before the adjoining residential areas appeared.
The police only saw rich class discomfort, “Dhote said, added,” Sex workers are also Indian citizens, taxpayers and constitutionally free in democratic societies.
“Pande stressed on the elimination of the red light area of ​​Jamuna Ganga but vowed to expand all possible assistance to sex workers if they were looking for rehabilitation.” Residents from a side by side are recruited because of anti-social activities and criminal elements regardless of the shame of the community every day, “Pande said.
Social activists and spokesman for NCP City Nutan Rewatkar, who are part of the 2015 agitation for the rights of sex workers and even save some minors from a brothel with the help of the police, said rehabilitation must be done according to their needs and not Forced.
Zonal DCP Lohit Matani said the police would take legal action against the two rival parties for violating the government’s orders.
“Some barricades were removed but put back after agitation,” he said.
“We will start the scheme of one window to help residents of red areas and sex workers , “he added.