BJP says, will send 10 lakh ‘Jai Shri Ram’ postcards to Mamata Banerjee.

BJP will send 10 lakh ‘Jai Shri Ram’ postcards to Mamata Banerjee: Bhatpara (WB) MP Arjun Singh.

Suchinta Pal | HENB | Kolkata | June 1, 2019:: The BJP will send 10 lakh postcards with “Jai Shri Ram” written on them to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, a party leader said Saturday, in a move likely to add salt to the ruling TMC ‘s wounds after a bruising performance in Lok Sabha polls.

“We have decided to send 10 lakh postcards with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ written on them to the chief minister’s residence,” newly elected lawmaker Arjun Singh told PTI.

WB CM Mamata Banerjee resides in a ‘show-piece’ tiles-roofed house at 30 B Harish Chatterjee Street in Kolkata 700026.

Arjun Singh, a former Trinamool Congress MLA who joined the BJP before the general election, said this after police lathicharged a group of saffron party workers who were chanting “Jai Shri Ram” during a demonstration outside a property where TMC leaders were holding a meeting.

TMC leaders had assembled in Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas district to chalk out a strategy to retake party offices taken over allegedly by BJP workers, Trinamool sources said.

Kanchrapara comes under Singh’s Barrackpore parliamentary constituency.

TMC leader and state minister Jyotipriya Mallick claimed Singh and Subhrangshu Roy, BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son who quit TMC and joined the saffron party on Tuesday, had conspired to incite trouble in the area.

Police sources said those gathered outside the meeting venue raised slogans and alleged that the presence of Mallick and other TMC leaders like Madan Mitra, Tapas Roy and Sujit Bose was detrimental to peace in the area.

Police and Rapid Action Force personnel first tried to persuade the protesters but later restored to lathicharge when the situation started to slip out of their hands, the sources said.

“This is unprecedented. We had not seen this culture in Bengal. This is the culture of the BJP,” Mallick said.

Singh denied the allegation.

“The TMC leaders are talking nonsense. People rejected the TMC and this is their reaction,” he said.

In the just-concluded election, BJP emerged as a political force in Bengal and won 18 seats out of the total 42. Since then, TMC leaders have been switching over to the saffron party.

Asked if TMC will file a police complaint over the protest, Mallick said his party will deal with it politically. The state minister also alleged that the protesters tried to attack his car.

A police officer said shops and markets were shut down as tension prevailed there.

“No one was arrested but a police picket has been set up. We are taking all measures so that peace is not distributed in the area,” he said. On Friday, the West Bengal BJP hit out at Banerjee for losing her temper when a group of men shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in front of her car. It asked whether it is a crime to chant the phrase in the state.

On Thursday, Banerjee had lost her cool when some men shouted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as her motorcade passed through Bhatpara area under Barrackpore Lok Sabha constituency.

Earlier this month in West Midnapore district, a video showed Banerjee getting angry when some men chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at her motorcade.

Though ‘Glory To Lord Rama’ chanting or sloganeering before WB CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee has stranded her an acute psychological patient of ‘Jai Shri Ram Phobia’, Indian postage department is seeing now a chunk good business with a greater hope of selling at least 20 lakh post cards worth Rs. 10 lakhs all over India in the Jai Shri Ram letter venture.

Eminent Hindu interlocutor and Hindu Existence Website Editor, Upananda Brahmachari urged all the proud Hindus of the country and the devout Hindu participants of Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Rashta Adhiveshan now going at Goa under the auspices of Hindu Janajagruti Samiti and Sanatan Sanstha to send thousands of letters to WB CM Mamata Banerjee writing “Jai Shri Ram”.

“I hope sending letters written with holy name of Jai Sri Ram, both to the residence (30, B Harish Chatterjee Street, Kolkata -700 026) and her office (NABANNA, 14th Floor, Sarat Chatterjee St, Shibpur, Howrah-711 102) of WB CM Mamata Banerjee, will drive away the Jihadi ghost residing in her very dangerously. All devout Hindus across the country must drop a letter to Mamata writing Jai Shri Ram in it,” Brahmachari told HENB from Haridwar.

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__inputs from PTI.