Mamata Banerjee abandoned her speech at the occasion in Victoria Memorial saying she was “insulted”.Kolkata: The Victoria Memorial incident, exactly where BJP supporters shouted “Jai Shri Ram” just as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rose to speak on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary at an occasion with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Kolkata, continued to churn politics in election-bound Bengal on Sunday.A day right after the heckling, which prompted Ms Banerjee to abandon her speech saying she was “insulted”, it emerged that BJP leaders had cornered a large share of invitation cards to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs occasion and provided them to party activists who had been present in the crowd in disproportionate numbers, say sources.Several best MPs had been in and out of Victoria Memorial for a couple of days prior to the occasion, drawing up guest lists and commandeering the cards, sources stated. “They virtually set up an office in a room, computers and all,” stated sources.There was no response from BJP leaders to requests for a comment on this.Sources stated every single BJP MP was provided a particular quantity of cards and a bunch of cards – the quantity in between 300 to 400 – went to the party’s workplace.The trouble, say BJP sources, was lots of “lower tier” workers got the cards, like Mandal committee members, who may possibly have been unfamiliar with decorum necessary at such events.They need to have gone to more people today from the intellectual cell, more suited to the occasion, some inside the BJP concede.At the venue, Rim Jhim Mitra, an workplace-bearer of the BJP youth wing, stated she was a single of numerous “volunteers” deployed to “help manage the guests”.Sources stated there had been 30 BJP volunteers at the venue, raising the query of why BJP workers had been roped in to handle a government occasion.The incident exposed a distinction of opinion in the BJP that has given that been papered more than.Samik Bhattacharya, ex-MLA and spokesman, stated quickly incident right after the incident, “The ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan, some are shouting with love, with respect or in protest. But we are not subscribing to such things, that when the Chief Minister is going to speak, you raise such slogans. We don’t support it. It just happened.”But Kailash Vijayvargiya and Dilip Ghosh today continued to attack Mamata Banerjee for her reaction to a “popular greeting”. This was the official party policy on the incident, arrived at right after a meeting this morning.But right after a dozen party workers from Burdwan had been “show-caused” on Sunday for violence outdoors the BJP workplace there lately, the buzz in the BJP is about related action against the slogan shouters. A higher-level organisational meeting is scheduled for Monday.Politically, a section of BJP feels the Victoria fiasco may possibly have some damaging influence amongst urban voters but none amongst rural a single.The Trinamool is attempting to turn the slogan fiasco into a poll war cry and urging people today to teach the BJP a lesson in the ballot.”When the chief minister rose to speak, she was insulted,” stated Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool MP and Mamata Banerjee nephew, at a public rally at Kultali in South 24 Parganas district today.”Those who demolished the Vidyasagar statue in 2019 in Kolkata were taught a lesson,” he stated in the Kolkata North constituency exactly where the demolition took location, a veteran BJP leader Rahul Sinha, lost the election to Trinamool’s Sudip Bandopadhyay.”Those who insulted Netaji should now be taught such a lesson so that they can’t enter a poll booth ever again,” Mr Banerjee added.Trinamool leaders are also pointing out that the prime minister who was an eyewitness to the complete shocking drama did not say a word about it when he rose to speak right after Mamata Banerjee.Firhad Hakim, Bengal’s urban affairs minister, stated, “The prime minister should have publicly condemned the slogan shouting. His silence condones the behaviour of the BJP supporters.”The incident brought Mamata Banerjee’s classic rivals out in her help.Md Salim of CPM stated, “She did the right thing by refusing to give her speech. Why couldn’t she speak? Because BJP held a party programme on government money. This is wrong. A wrong is a wrong. Bengal has been wronged.”Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Congress MP and state party chief, stated, “The PM has damaged his own position by allowing this. No one has the right to insult Mamata Banerjee… our chief minister… like this. It was an attack by Hindu communalists on Bengal’s culture. A communal and political assault on Bengal.”Netaji is the newest icon of Bengal to get caught up in the BJP-Trinamool fight for 294 seats in the Bengal Assembly.The squabble started with the demolition of the Vidyasagar bust, then Amit Shah’s floral tributes to a statue that was not Birsa Munda’s, a tweet that place down Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s location of birth as Shantiniketan when it is really Kolkata.Over Netaji, the flashpoint was what to get in touch with his birthday. Desh Nayak Diwas or Parakram Diwas? Mamata Banerjee questioned the which means of Parakram – which signifies courage – and stated Bengal would mark it as Desh Nayak Diwas. Tagore had addressed Netaji as Desh Nayak.She even backed the demand of the Forward Bloc – the party Netaji founded – for his birthday to be named Desh Prem Diwas.PM Modi, on the other hand, stated Parakram Diwas.
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