‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans, posters greet Mamata Banerjee in Goa

West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee was greeted with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans and posters in poll-bound Goa on Thursday, October 28. Banerjee was in Goa for her maiden go to after her get together declared contesting the 2022 state meeting elections.
When the TMC supremo reached the Goa airport many individuals current there, allegedly staff of the Bhartiya Janata Party, greeted Banerjee with the ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan. Besides, many ‘Jai Shri Ram’ posters had been additionally out up throughout the coastal state.
‘Jai Shri Ram’ poster emerge in Goa forward of Mamata Banerjee’s go to to the poll-bound state
Reacting to the incident, the previous Goa CM and TMC chief in Goa Luizinho Falerio mentioned: “Some BJP supporters were protesting with slogans of Jai Shree Ram. Mamata Banerjee gestured a namaskar to them and we moved on.” “I am a devotee of Ram as well. But it is not our culture to tear down images of a woman,” he mentioned.
The state BJP unit has, nevertheless, denied its involvement within the incident. “We are certainly not involved in the hoardings issue,” a BJP employee was quoted by native media as saying.
Mamata Banerjee and her aversion in direction of the ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan
In January 2021, Mamata Banerjee was seen strolling out of the stage refusing to deal with the general public gathered at Kolkata’s Victoria Memorial for Netaji start anniversary celebrations.
WB CM Mamata Banerjee, who was sharing the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, refused to deal with the gathering and lamented of “being disrespected” as a result of she couldn’t stand the slogans of Jai Shree Ram, Bharat Mata ki Jai, and so on when she was invited to deal with the occasion.
Lashing out after listening to ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans, Mamata Banerjee lamented earlier than strolling off the stage: “Inviting people and then disrespecting them does not behove the government. This is a government programme, not a political party’s programme”.
In 2019, Mamata Banerjee had taken to social networking web site Facebook to let the world know that she is going to proceed to oppose ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans as they’re a deliberate try ‘to sell hatred ideology’.
In truth, there have been a number of events, the place Mamata Banerjee has gone to the extent of slapping and getting individuals arrested for chanting the slogan. Likewise, her get together cadres have gotten so provoked by the slogan that they’ve retaliated by resorting to violence a number of occasions prior to now.
BJP too has used this case extensively to their benefit. Before the West Bengal polls, with the intention to rile Mamata Banerjee, the saffron get together had included the ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogan in its marketing campaign video. The video had snippets of the long-drawn violence inflicted on the frequent individuals of the state, with a background rating together with the slogan.  The video confirmed varied incidents the place Mamata Banerjee opposed the Jai Shree Ram slogans.
Posters of WB CM vandalised in Goa
The ‘Jai Shri Ram’ posters had emerged in Goa shut on the heels of a number of hoardings carrying photos of the Trinamool Congress president being defaced in Goa forward of her go to. Several TMC hoardings and billboards throughout Goa had been pulled down, destroyed, and Mamata Banerjee’s face on the banners was smeared with ink. The Goa unit of the get together has pinned the blame on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
TMC releases political cartoon displaying Mamata Banerjee crushing PM and HM together with her slippers
While the TMC had tried to make use of the difficulty to launch an assault on the BJP with allegations that don’t have any proof to again them up, it’s value remembering that Mamata Banerjee’s get together solely two days beforehand launched posters whereby TMC not solely normalised but additionally celebrated violence.
The political cartoon confirmed a girl, clad in a white saree with a blue strip, one thing which the West Bengal Chief Minister wears, crushing three individuals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and one civilian below her slipper-wearing foot.