In what was promptly dismissed by the BJP as a “prejudiced action by Mamata Banerjee’s police,” three saffron functionaries were on Thursday arrested for raising “Goli Maro” slogan from party leader Suvendu Adhikari’s rally at Chandannagar on Wednesday.
The threesome Suresh Sahu --- Hooghly BJP youth wing leader, Prabhat Gupta and Rabin Gupta a doctor were sent to seven-days,’ judicial custody by a local court party sources why the same treatment was not meted out to the Trinamool Congress workers guilty of the same offence.
The TMC men were seen raising similar slogans from a party rally in South Kolkata on Wednesday “but their offence was pleasantly forgotten by the police which goes on to prove their biased worthy to be noted by the Election Commission of India,” said State BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya.
Bhattacharya said his party did not endorse the slogan raised by his party men but recalled how the TMC supporters were seen on camera raising similar slogan “Bangla ka gaddaro ko, goli maro s***n ko” a coinage that originally emanated from a Delhi BJP rally led by a Union Minister a year ago.
When asked as to why the TMC men were not arrested for the same offence senior party leader and MP Saugato Roy said “whatever the police did is their decision and the TMC leadership has got nothing to do with it.” Another party veteran and Minister Subroto Mukherjee said“we don't support such misconduct,” adding the offender would be taken to task.
Minister Firhad Hakim reminded how nothing was done to the central minister who raised the slogan last year. “I have asked to find out whether they were actual TMC supporters or outsiders who infiltrated our rally,” the Minister said.