Bengal Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday played the Hindu card more intensely towards consolidating the Hindu votes ahead of the next year’s Assembly elections, saying those who would serve the cause of the Hindus would rule Bengal because only the Hindus and none else were destined to rule Hindustan. Announcing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) programmes to take out grand rallies of Hindus on the Ram Navami day Adhikari said there were plans being hatched by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, her police and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to create communal disturbance during Ram Navami and said the State Government would be held liable if any untoward incident would happen as a consequence of the TMC leadership’s “nefarious designs.” “Hindus will rule Hindustan and none else,” Adhikari said adding, “those who are trying to disturb peace of the State should appreciate the fact that only those who would serve the cause of the Hindus would finally rule Bengal.”
Launching a scathing attack on Banerjee for provoking the minority community he said, “the Chief Minister and her Police are spreading the poison of communalism and hatred in the State ahead of Ram Navami, the police have been directed to take preventive steps to thwart the celebrations of the festival of the Hindus.”
Alleging that the State police and the TMC men were inciting communal hatred in the society he said, how “the Chief Minister told the public from a Muslim religious congregation that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal are hatching plans to disturb the State.”
This was the second year of Ram Navami celebrations after the inauguration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya, and this year has seen 66 Crore of Santani people taking holi dip in Maha Kumbha, he said asking the people to come out in lakhs to celebrate Ram Navami. Bengal would witness so many rallies this year that “it would be difficult for the Chief Minister’s mischievous police force and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) goons to measure of the crowds,” he said.
“The Police are trying to thwart the celebrations by imposing conditions, but I ask you not to abide by those conditions and only follow the protocols that we followed the last year before taking out the processions,” he said. Attacking the Chief Minister for allowing the “jihadi forces” to spike Durga Puja and Ram Navami celebrations in various parts of the State last year the BJP leader said, “the jihadis prevented celebrations of Durga Pujas at Falakata. There were jihadi attacks on the Ram Navami processions at Rishra in Hooghly district, Shibpur in Howrah district, and Dalkhola in North Bengal but the government kept silent, and the state government spent lakhs of rupees to prevent National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into such attacks but failed and today 85 such jihadis are in jail. This year also they will try to do the same thing but the Hindus will have to unite and keep a strong vigil.” Adhikari’s statement comes a day after processions were taken out in Hooghly district with huge banners and posters reading “Hindus, Hindus Bhai Bhai, Ei baar BJP ke chai (All Hindus are brothers, so this year BJP should come to power).” Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) hit back at the Opposition leader wondering how the Bengal leadership was contracting Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was asking for peace and unity.
