Don’t defame Lord Ram: Mamata attacks BJP after street clash
Invoking Ram Temple controversy for the first time, former Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said, “Ram ka naam Badnam na karo” (don’t defame Lord Rama).
This even as an angry Trinamool Congress chief (Kalighat faction) lambasted the Bengal BJP Government for trying to gag the Opposition voice by “unleashing its goons on their peaceful rallies.”
She said, “Those who looted the donations for Lord Ram are calling others thieves and today attacking our men when they go out in peaceful protest rallies… that too backed by a High Court order… they don’t even have any regard for the High Court… we will file a contempt case against them.”
Banerjee’s outburst came moments after clashes erupted between the BJP and TMC cadres, who fought pitched battles at noon on Wednesday along the Hajra Road, leaving several persons from both sides injured. The police and the central forces had a difficult time controlling the crowd.
The members of the pro-Mamata TMC group had organised a rally against atrocities on women in Bengal when they got embroiled in a skirmish with members of the BJP who had taken a counter rally along the same route.
Men from both the rallies were seen exchanging fisticuffs a few hundred metres from Banerjee’s Kalighat house.
