With general elections to commence in a few days from now the Calcutta High Court on Monday gave a conditional permission to the organize Ramnavami procession.

Passing a conditional order Justice Joy Sengupta directed petitioners Anjani Putra Sena and another such organization apparently backed by some larger saffron outfits to take a rally that would not consist more than 200 men and that asked them to provide the name of five people that would lead the procession.

The Court also said that during the procession neither any weapon should be carried nor inflammatory speech should be given, nor DJs would be played. The Court order against the backdrop of riots last year at Howrah and Serampore.

Incidentally the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and some other organsiations have planned to celebrate the Ramnavami Mahotsav in a grand manner from April 9 to April 23 throughout Bengal.

While the VHP leadership said that they have numerous programmes lined up throughout the State the Left leadership said such programmes were being organised during the election times in order to give impetus to the TMC-BJP binary.”The people have understood things and they will not fall prey to such programmes … though these issues tend to create emotions in the remote areas the people have come to realise that they would generate bread and butter neither they would provide jobs and pull down the price rise,” said CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty.  

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too asked the people not to step into the trap being laid by the BJP. “They are trying to lay traps for you … by creating communal tensions and riots … I will request all not walk into their traps and play it cool … avoid making statements because the BJP wants to polarize votes,” she said.

Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari on the other hand blamed Banerjee for creating communal situation. “There is no question of communal tension when the religious programmes are organized … it is the Chief Minister who is trying to create situation in order to frighten the Muslims and make them vote for her,” he said.”