Amid the ongoing language warfare when the BJP and Trinamool Congress leaders of Bengal kept the Election Commission of India busy adjudicating their mutually traded “uncouth remarks” the BJP on Friday moved the election panel with complain against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for using offensive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during her Thursday’s election rally in North Bengal.
Both the leaders held two different rallies in two different places of Cooch Behar from where they attacked each other’s policies.
The letter written by the BJP to the ECI said, “we draw your attention to the multiple guidelines issued by the Commission on maintaining dignity of the campaign. Repeated advisories have been issued to refrain from use of inappropriate, abusive at times, vocabulary against star campaigners of other political party(ies),” adding, “In complete disregard and disrespect to the majesty of the Commission, Smt Mamata Banerjee resorted to use offensive vocabulary even when referring to the Hon’ble Prime Minister…”
It was shocking to hear the use of the offensive word, the letter read adding how following in the footsteps of the TMC chief the lesser leaders of that party too were using bad words against sitting saffron MPs like Locket Chatterjee.
Requesting “immediate and appropriate action against the erring leaders, the BJP wrote how “following in the footsteps of their party supremo we have noticed many TMC campaigners using foul and offensive language, in some cases even when referring to a lady. As an example, we draw your attention to derogatory remarks made on 4th April by TMC MLA for Chunchura Shri Asit Mazumder, referring to our Lok Sabha candidate Smt Locket Chatterjee MP… at a public gathering.”
Curiously senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh had earlier been censured by the ECI for using offensive language against the Chief Minister. He had raised questions about her ancestry.
Reacting to the BJP’s letter TMC spokesperson and outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen said that the Chief Minister had used “no bad word,” adding “there is always a difference between a slip of tongue and an intentional bad word … besides if a person immediately realizes that and withdraws it you cannot call the word offensive.”
He also reminded how the Prime Minister had in 2019 “made offensive remarks against the Chief Minister who is a woman by calling her “Didi o Didi’.” That the BJP did not take any action against Ghosh for using foul words against the Chief Minister also should be taken into consideration he said.
Meanwhile, a day after the Prime Minister hard-hitting speech from an election rally at Cooch Behar, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday hit him back daring him on the issue of corruption to make a comparative study between what and how things were like in Trinamool Congress-ruled Bengal and BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.”They talk about corruption in Bengal … but I challenge them to issue White Paper on the issue taking States like Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh in it … they only talk of Bengal … why don’t they look at U.P.” Banerjee said from a second rally in North Bengal.
Referring to the Prime Minister’s reference of Sandeshkhali where lands of poor people were grabbed and their women were subjected to sexual assault Banerjee said it was an isolated affair. “Sandeshkhali is an isolated case and in no way can be equated to Nandigram and Singur … but here the people are unnecessarily trying to play politics with it … and besides we have immediately taken action at Sandeshkhali by arresting the accused persons and returning the lands of the people … this is because the TMC Government always stands for what is right,” Banerjee said.
Incidentally, a renowned sephologist in a recent interview had said that Sandeshkhali was going to play a big role in Bengal elections and that the BJP would benefit the most out of it.
