West Bengal Governor asks CM Mamata Banerjee to empower voters, eliminate atmosphere of fear ANI | Updated: Jan 25, 2021 15:37 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 25 (ANI): On the 11th National Voters Day, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Monday asked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to empower and inform voters, ensure their safety and eliminate an atmosphere of fear. Make all efforts #NationalVotersDay to make Voters Empowered, Vigilant, Safe and Informed
@MamataOfficial. Atmosphere of fear for voter-the supreme stakeholder, must be overcome, Dhankhar tweeted on Monday.
Further warning the state government machinery including the police, against political bias, Dhankhar in his tweet said, Absence of political neutrality @WBPolice @HomeBengal would be culpable leading to consequences.
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Vijayvargiya also took to Twitter and said, “Mamata ji set a political agenda on Jai Shri Ram slogans on a very pious stage today.
Banerjee had declined to speak at an event organized on Saturday (January 23) in Kolkata’s famous Victoria Memorial to commemorate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on his 125th birth anniversary. As a protest, I won t speak anything. Jai Hind, Jai Bangla, the TMC supremo said.
New Delhi: BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday (January 24) attacked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for refusing to address the crowd after chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans were raised at an event on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s birth anniversary . He further claimed that the CM did this to appease a part of the population.
West Bengal: TMC MP Nusrat Jahan opens up on Jai Shri Ram slogans, here s what she said
CM Mamata objected to the shouting of political and religious slogans at government functions, saying the government s program should have dignity.
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Updated: Jan 24, 2021, 10:40 AM IST
Trinamool Congress (TMC) Lok Sabha MP Nusrat Jahan on Saturday (January 23) strongly condemned the incident of crowd raising Jai Sri Ram slogans as West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee came to the stage to address an event which was held to commemorate the 125th bith anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
The sloganeering left CM Mamata Banerjee very upset and she refused to address the event.
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TMC Lok Sabha MP Nusrat Jahan strongly condemned the raising the Jai Sri Ram slogans at a political event.
Just as CM Mamata Banerjee was about to address the event on Netaji the sloganeering began.
New Delhi: Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to address the event on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata on Saturday (January 23, 2021) as the crowd raised Jai Sri Ram slogans, Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Nusrat Jahan strongly condemned the incident.
Taking to Twitter, the
sitting MP from Basirhat wrote: Ram ka naam gale laga ke bolo na ke gale dabake I strongly condemn the shouting of political and religious slogans at government functions to celebrate the legacy of freedom fighter