Hatred chants echo in Bengal

The political situation got tense in West Bengal on Wednesday as all the political parties cried foul at each other for chanting ‘violent slogans’ in their rally.

Less than 12 hours when all the opposition parties slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress for their violent slogan at a rally in South Kolkata, the same chant of ‘Desh ke Gaddaro ko, Goli Maaro Saalo ko’ (Shoot the traitors) was heard from the rally of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari at Chandannagar.

Notably, the ‘Goli Maaro Saalo ko’ hate slogan was heard in Delhi last year January, by union minister Anurag Thakur while he was commenting about the protestors at Saheen Bagh agitating against the implementation of NRC and CAA.

Taking a potshot at the ruling party earlier this day, BJP West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh said that the TMC is synonymous to violence and their chants echo the same.

“The TMC carried on with the legacy of the former Left Front government and violence is common at every corner of West Bengal, now even their chants resemble the same,” slammed Ghosh. Countering Ghosh, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said that an alert has been sent to the TMC workers urging them not to repeat the slogan.

“This slogan is BJP culture. A central minister started it against those protesting NRC at Shaheen Bagh last year. Instruction has already been issued by the party worker for not repeating this slogan. Our party does not approve of such slogans and such culture. This is the culture of BJP,” mentioned Roy.