Ahead of the protest, called amid the ongoing row over the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, police had thrown a ring of security around the West Bengal state secretariat.
The rally began from the College Square in the capital of West Bengal. As per the initial information, the protestors have reached till the barricades.
Amid the tightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat in the wake of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally, the West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday urged the state government to not to use power to stop the "peaceful protesting students."
In the wake of the Nabanna Abhijan Rally over RG Kar Medical College and Hospital rape-murder case, the West Bengal police has tightened security around the West Bengal state secretariat "Nabanna".
West Bengal ADG Police (Law & Order) Manoj Kumar Verma called Nabanna Abhijan Rally on August 27 to reach the Nabanna or State Secretariat as illegal and an attempt to incite widespread unrest in Kolkata.
Violent clashes erupted between students and Ansar members near the Secretariat in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Sunday night. The confrontation left several people from both sides injured, the Dhaka Tribune reported.
The Himachal Pradesh Secretariat witnessed a joint protest on Friday as secretariat employees and unemployed and outsourced nursing workers gathered to voice their demands.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy on Tuesday inspected and assessed the State Secretariat premises to install the Telangana Talli statue, after announcing earlier in the day that the statue will be installed on December 9.
Several doctors in Shimla marched towards the Himachal Pradesh Secretariat on Tuesday, demanding justice for the rape and murder of the female doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata.
The second Cabinet Sub-Committee meeting on Desilting & Sedimentation management of Irrigation Projects was held at the Telangana Secretariat on Monday.
The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the Ministry of External Affairs, seeking approval of the competent authority to enable Sanjiv Ranjan to take up the foreign assignment as Secretary General, Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA), Secretariat, Mauriti
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a meeting with the priests, officials, hotel associations, tour operators, transports and business boards from the Char Dhams at the Secretariat on Saturday.