Need a change in West Bengal to stop infiltration, says Union home minister Amit Shah at a BJP rally in the poll-bound state
Ahead of the Bengal elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to up the ante against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee over her dislike for the slogan 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라, Following Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union home minister Amit Shah, too, took jibes at her on this issue.
Addressing a public rally in Bengal four days after Modi said the people of Bengal will show the Bengal chief minister 바카라Ram Card바카라 (instead of a red card) for committing 바카라too many fouls바카라, Shah on Thursday said that even the Bengal chief minister will chant 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 after the state elections were over.
바카라Mamata-didi has created such an atmosphere in Bengal as if chanting 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 in this state is a crime. Why would it be so? If not in Bengal, would 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 be chanted in Pakistan? Tell me, brothers and sisters, should 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 be chanted or not?바카라 Shah said, and then asked the audience to repeat the cry thrice.
바카라Mamata didi takes insult in this. Why? Crores of people feel proud remembering Lord Ram. But you have a problem because you have to appease a particular community to get their votes. Why? Don바카라t these people who chant 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 have their votes? I promise you, Mamata didi too would start chanting 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 by the time the elections come to an end,바카라 he said.
These recent jibes at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief come close on the heels of Banerjee who refused to speak at a central government event to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in the presence of Modi after a section of the audience greeted her with 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 once she was invited to deliver her speech.
Mamata Banerjee had dubbed shouting of this slogan as an insult. Since 2019, she has taken the 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 slogan as an insult.
The TMC has repeatedly said that 바카라Jai Shree Ram바카라 was not a religious slogan but a political one associated with the Ram Temple movement led by the BJP and its associated Hindutva organizations.
Shah was addressing a rally of supporters in Cooch Behar district of north Bengal, his first of the day in the state.
Earlier in the morning, he addressed a rally in Assam, where he met a separatist leader from West Bengal, Ananta Ray, who wants a separate state of Greater Cooch Behar carved out of parts of Bengal and Assam.
Wanted by the West Bengal police in a number of cases, Ray has been living in Assam over the past few years. He has been allying with the BJP.
He took digs at the Mamata on infiltration and appeasement.
바카라Do you think Mamata Banerjee바카라s government can stop infiltration? Can they? Let us form the government in Bengal. Forget any human being, even birds wouldn바카라t be able to infiltrate,바카라 Shah said.
Shah was in Cooch Behar to inaugurate the fourth of the five Poriborton Jatras (rallies for a change) the party has planned across the state바카라s 294 Assembly constituencies. BJP national president J P Nadda earlier inaugurated three Jatras over the past few days.
In the evening he is scheduled to address a public gathering at Thakurnagar in south Bengal. At the rally in Thakurnagar, a hub of Hindu migrants from Bangladesh, Shah is expected to speak on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the rules for which have not yet been framed despite the Act having been passed by the Parliament in December 2019.