West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is a classic example of what the ‘saffron’ trolls call “sickular”, or an overkill of secularism to achieve an altogether different goal, which, in her case, is to keep most of the state’s 30 percent Muslim electorate on her side in the upcoming assembly elections.

On January 13, at 6:30 on a foggy morning, while IAF officer Abhimanyu Gaud was overseeing rehearsals for the Republic Day parade on Red Road, he was hit head-on by a mint fresh Audi Q7 that had streaked down the road from the Vidyasagar bridge and smashed through three guard rails.

There were policemen on security duty, who did nothing. Gaud was dragged down the road at high speed for 20 meters, after which the car hit another barricade, which knocked its bonnet.

Gaud died on the spot. The driver left the car and fled, but didn’t forget to tear up the paper pasted on its back with a trade numbering used by the dealer.