Ms Banerjee accused BJP of insulting all cultural icons of the state from Rabindranath Tagore to revolutionary Santhal leader Birsa Munda.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, still upset over the “Jai Shri Ram” slogans at the Netaji birth anniversary programme, lashed out at the BJP today, accusing them of insulting all cultural icons of the state from Rabindranath Tagore to revolutionary Santhal leader Birsa Munda.
“I went to their programme and some aggressive, fanatic traitors dared to tease me in front of the PM. They don’t know me. If you point a gun at me I will show you the armoury. But I don’t believe in politics by the gun,” Ms Banerjee said at an event today.
“You have insulted Netaji. You have named the birthplace of Tagore wrong. You have destroyed Vidyasagar’s statue. You garlanded a wrong statue thinking it was Birsa Munda,” the Bengal CM said, brewing the insider-outsider storm in the lead up to assembly elections.
The Chief Minister’s comments came after she was caught unaware at a programme on Friday attended by PM Modi to mark the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, where some members of the audience raised “Jai Shri Ram” chants when she rose to speak.
“This is not a political programme. Government programmes should have some dignity. It is not fair to insult someone you have invited,” said visibly upset Banerjee, cutting short her speech.
The Chief Minister, amid a flurry of jibes from the BJP over her reaction, today said the BJP should rechristen the ”Bharat Jalao Party” and advised rebels in her party to leave as soon as possible.
The Trinamool supremo, without naming Suvendu Adhikari and others who quit Trinamool to join the BJP, said they had “money to hide”. The Trinamool, she said, “will not give them tickets in the coming elections”.
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