Neither BJP nor TMC endorses the slogan, but the incidents have added to the acrimony.Kolkata: Street-level politics in poll-bound West Bengal has taken a turn for the worse with 3 BJP workers becoming arrested today for raising provocative slogans calling for violence. Yesterday’s sloganeering came a day immediately after related calls have been produced by Trinamool supporters in the course of a march in Kolkata. While neither party has endorsed the practice, the incidents have only added to the currently acrimonious political atmosphere in the state.The 3 BJP supporters have been arrested today for shouting “Desh Ke Gaddaron Ko, Goli Maaro Saalon Ko” (Shoot the country’s traitors) at a rally in Chandannagar region of Hooghly district yesterday.The sloganeering BJP cadres, carrying the party flag along with the Indian Tricolour, have been trailing a truck carrying BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee in the Rathtala region of Chandannagar, according to a PTI report. Mr Adhikari, till lately a cabinet minister in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s government, shifted loyalties to the BJP in December 2020.”Goli Maro slogans are unacceptable. The BJP is trying to provoke people,” West Bengal Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim told .The BJP has, on the other hand, stated the slogan was aimed at the nation’s traitors “some of whom are in the Trinamool Congress”. State spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya stated the party does not endorse it. Yet, he sought to differentiate it from the a single raised on Tuesday in the course of a South Kolkata Trinamool march, according to PTI.During that occasion, TMC members targeted “Bengal’s traitors” rather of “the nation’s”. Party spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, as well, condemned the slogan, PTI reported.”Such a slogan should not have been raised from the rally…The words goli maro (shoot) should not be taken literally,” Mr Ghosh stated.In March 2020, 3 BJP supporters have been arrested for raising the very same slogan even though heading for Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s rally in Kolkata.The slogan had triggered a huge row across India final year immediately after a Delhi BJP leader raised it days ahead of the January 2020 riots in the national capital.
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