West Bengal Election, Yogi Adityanath in Hooghly: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday promised to bring UP-like ‘anti-Romeo’ squads in West Bengal to defend the interests of daughters and sisters of the state. Adityanath is one of the star campaigners of the saffron party and has been extensively campaigning in the eastern state.
Addressing a rally at Krishnarampur in Hooghly, the chief minister mentioned that his party, if elected, will introduce “UP-like anti-Romeo squads in Bengal and put all the ruling party romeos behind bars. “To safeguard the interests of sisters and daughters, the BJP will create Uttar Pradesh-like anti-Romeo squads in Bengal and put all TMC Romeos behind bars,” he mentioned,
The BJP’s firebrand chief minister also mentioned that his counterpart Mamata Banerjee will begin saying ‘Jai Shree Ram’ soon after May 2, the day outcomes will be declared in West Bengal. “After 2 May, Didi will start saying ‘Jai Shree Ram’,” Adityanath mentioned in Hooghly. The top rated BJP leaders say that Jai Shri Ram is not a religious slogan but a way of expressing anger against Mamata’s politics of appeasement in Bengal.
Yogi also brought up the anti-CAA protest in Bengal. He mentioned in the course of CAA protests, the TMC men and women have been supporting these who have been instigating violence. “In UP, we put up hoardings of rioters and confiscated their properties. Mamata Didi can’t do this as she sees them as a TMC vote bank,” the UP chief minister mentioned.
With-in days of taking more than as chief minister, Yogi Aditynath had announced that he would type ‘Anti-Romeo Squd’ to cease eve-teasing and harassment of girls. His government later set up the squads, which was one of the promises in the manifesto. Then Lucknow Zone IG A Satish Ganesh had mentioned that squads have been set up to verify eve-teasing and passing of lewd comments against ladies and girls…”and action will be taken below the Goonda Act against the wrongdoers”.
The anti-romeo squad had the backing of then BJP chief Amit Shah. In the run up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 2017, then BJP President Amit Shah had mentioned that if elected his government would set up anti-Romeo squads in UP. “In UP, people have stopped sending their daughters to colleges because the girls get harassed. We have promised that BJP will form an anti-Romeo Squad to save these girls. This is not communal,” Amit Shah had told News 18.