Mamata: BJP ‘threatens people with guns, bullets’

Bengal CM slams Yogi for ‘goli vs boli’ comment

Krishnanagar, (West Bengal), Feb. 5: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday described BJP as a party of “fekus” (those who bluff) who “threaten people with guns and bullets” to allegedly divide the country on the basis of religion.

Without naming Union minister Anurag Thakur or his “Desh ke gaddaron ko” remark, Ms Banerjee, who was speaking at a convention of TMC workers at Krishnagar in Nadia district, questioned how a Central minister continues to hold a constitutional post despite speaking unconstitutionally.

The TMC supremo also slammed Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath for his “goli vs boli” comment.

Hitting out at the BJP, she said, “BJP is a feku party. It is only interested in giving out fake news. It is trying to divide the country on the basis of religion and are threatening people with guns and bullets.”

She continued her tirade saying, “The BJP is a party of crazy, religiously

The BJP is a party of crazy, religiously blind people who have little knowledge of religion and are trying to confuse the people by dividing them... — Mamata Banerjee , Bengal CM

blind people who have little knowledge of religion and are trying to confuse the people of the country by dividing them. They are a party of goondas, of dangabaazs,” the chief minister said.

Mr Thakur, the Union minister of state for finance, had egged on the crowd to raise an incendiary slogan — “Desh ke gaddaron ko goli maaron salo ko” (shoot down the country's traitors) — after he lashed out at antiCAA protesters while campaigning for the BJP candidate at Rithala in Delhi earlier this month for the February 8 Assembly polls.

He had chanted “Desh ke gaddaron ko”, while the crowd which had gathered at the rally roared back “goli maaron saalon ko” (shoot them down). — PTI