TMC normalises and celebrates violence by sharing a picture of crushing PM Modi forward of Goa elections

Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress appears to have blown the ballot bugle in Goa with a political cartoon displaying a girl, clad in white saree with blue strip, one thing which the West Bengal Chief Minister wears, crushing three folks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and one civilian beneath her slipper-wearing foot.
TMC’s Goa marketing campaignThe picture was shared with textual content “HATERS BEWARE! SHE IS COMING.” Here, ‘she’ could be very doubtless TMC chief Mamata Banerjee. Essentially, with this picture, TMC shouldn’t be solely normalising violence however even celebrating it.
The entire crushing somebody beneath one’s toes would have been a artistic metaphor had the post-poll violence in Bengal after TMC’s victory wasn’t a harsh actuality. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has in its detailed report had talked about how the widespread violence and focused killings of so many BJP staff was not spontaneous however well-planned. The committee had knowledgeable that many supporters of a political celebration have been compelled to flee their houses resulting from a focused assault. Houses have been burnt and ransacked with the victims made to provide in writing that they won’t help a specific political celebration. The political celebration that was in energy was Mamata Banerjee-ruled TMC.
There have been studies that the West Bengal police didn’t file FIRs in lots of circumstances and ignored complaints of victims. The High Court has directed {that a} Special Investigation Team, beneath the monitoring of the Court, ought to examine the opposite legal circumstances associated to post-poll violence. There has been deafening silence from the ‘liberal’ part of the media in addition to political spectrum in opposition to the brutality perpetrated on BJP supporters and staff.
BJP staff and supporters are dehumanised such that not solely there is no such thing as a condemnation on the barbarity however it is usually inspired and celebrated. These are the identical set of people that sing paeans on how image speaks a thousand phrases and the way phrases result in genocide. The identical set of individuals are not completely okay with a picture of Prime Minister of India, Home Minister of India and one other civilian being crushed beneath foot of a girl – who shall not be named.
What they’re doing is vilification and dehumanising, particularly of BJP staff, which might then be used as grounds for genocide. Many BJP staff and supporters have both been killed in post-poll violence or they’ve fled Bengal fearing for his or her lives. But the ‘liberals’ are silent as a result of ‘Sanghis’ should die.
‘Sanghis’ are so dehumanised that wishing sick upon them is normalised. During the coronavirus pandemic second wave when the nation was gripped in oxygen disaster, there have been individuals who would want ‘Sanghis’ don’t get the oxygen wanted and wished loss of life upon their family members. That is how a lot the hate is normalised.
These are additionally the identical individuals who cry ‘fascism’ at slightest discomfort beneath the Modi authorities. But keep radio silence at these enablers of genocide as a result of, nicely, they’re not ‘Sanghis’.