The BJP and RSS were behind cancellation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s scheduled address at the prestigious St Stephen’s College in Delhi, the Trinamool Congress leaders have said.
The Bengal Chief Minister was scheduled to address the students of the elite college in Delhi on August 1 but the college authorities withdrew the invitation, sources said. Notwithstanding, her other engagements in the Capital was on and she would visit Delhi on the stipulated date.
Banerjee was also likely to address a meeting of the catholic community where after she could also meet some national Opposition leaders in Parliament.
The same saffron axis was behind the cancellation of her Swami Vivekananda memorial address at Chicago and a visit to China where she was likely to lead a delegation, the TMC leaders said.
Giving a strong reaction to the recent happenings senior TMC leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O’Brien said, “first the Vivekananda event in Chicago and then her China visit and now St Stephens. Mamata Banerjee is giving the BJP-RSS sleepless nights. let them keep trying, she cannot be silenced.”
If the BJP thought that Mamata Banerjee was a timid woman who would fall prey to their dirty game then they were mistaken, the TMC leaders said reminding the BJP will not get a single seat in Bengal.
Referring to the three Rath Yatras of the BJP that would criss-cross the State culminate at the Brigade Parade Ground on January 23 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi would address a grand rally the TMC leaders said: “BJP’s grave will be dug in Bengal.”