‘GOLI MAARO’ CHANTS AT BJP LEADER SUVENDU’S RALLY IN BENGAL

KOLKATA: Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday allegedly raised the controversial “goli maaro” slogan at a roadshow in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, a day after a similar slogan was raised by supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress.

The slogan, “desh ke gaddaron ko, goli maaro” (shoot the traitors of the nation), was raised by people carrying the BJP flag who were seen trailing a truck carrying former Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari who is now with the BJP, the BJP’S Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh and BJP’S Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee in the district’s Chandannagar area.

Condemning the incident, Bengal BJP’S chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said, “Our party does not endorse it at all... However, one must understand that when we talk of traitors, we mean terrorists...,” he told mediapersons in Kolkata.

TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh targeted the BJP and said, “The TMC workers should not have uttered it but the BJP has proved once again that it believes in the culture of violence in letter and spirit.”

West Bengal is scheduled to go polls before May this year.