Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday attacked a section of “self-seeking, narrow-minded” politicians for the present state of communal confusion in the country.
Speaking on the 167th anniversary of Kolkata’s Dakshineshwar Kali Temple associated with the memories of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa Dev and his disciple Rani Rashmoni who constructed the temple, the Chief Minister said that common people were not communal minded and that they were victims of provocation.
“The common people are not communal … they want peace but there are some self-seeking leaders who have a closed heart and a dirty brain … they incite these common people to create disturbance so that they can reap political dividends,” the Chief Minister said.
“The negative people always indulge in hatching conspiracy … their brains are like dustbins which are stuffed with rotten ideas … there dustbin-like brains always are busy in producing dirty plans … they indulge in propaganda politics and set one section of common people against the other … these are power-hungry selfish leaders who see their own interest in dividing people on the basis of religion,” the Chief Minister said, apparently taking a dig at arch rival BJP.
“No religion divides people … all religion preaches unity of mankind … but these selfish politicians ignite communal division … so we it is in the interest of the common man that peace is mutual harmony is maintained.”
Recalling the preaching of Ramakrishna who stood for unity of religions Banerjee said the people should always think of amity and
not division. Recalling how Ramakrishna said “money is earth and earth is money,” the Chief Minister said “some people always set their eyes on extra gratification which is wrong … we should do our work without thinking of extra gains.”
On the occasion of the 167th anniversary of the Temple, Banerjee inaugurated a 3-D light and sound show apart from a library at the Temple premises which also associated with Ramakrishna’s wife Holy Mother Sharada and his disciple Swami Vivekananda.
Asserting that Dakshineswar was a centre of international tourist attraction Banerjee said her Government would build a helipad near the Temple. Already a sky-walk has been constructed linking the Temple and the nearest Metro Railway station.