Mamata wants to create 'Greater Bangladesh' Dilip Ghosh

    Kolkata, Jan 28 (PTI) In a Facebook post, BJP state
president Dilip Ghosh on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee of trying to create a "Greater
Bangladesh" by raising 'Jai Bangla' slogan at her public
meetings.
    Ghosh shared a poster on his official Facebook account
where an image of Banerjee is shown with the caption -"The
honourary person is uttering the Bangladeshi slogan Jai Bangla
which is the national slogan of Islamic Bangladesh."
    "She is fighting with the objective of a Greater
Bangladesh," the post said.
Two other images of Bangladeshi actor Firdaus
campaigning for the Trinamool Congress in 2019 Lok Sabha polls
and a Bangladeshi cricketer inaugurating a Durga Puja,
organised by a Trinamool Congress MLA in north Kolkata, were
also attached with the Facebook post.
    The chief minister on January 23 declined to speak at
an event to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's birth
anniversary where "Jai Shri Ram" slogans were raised in the
presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
    Banerjee had not started her speech when the slogan
was raised by a section of the crowd at the Victoria Memorial
event to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of the freedom
fighter.
    "This is a government programme and not a political
programme. There has to be dignity. It doesn't behove anybody
to invite people and insult. I won't speak. Jai Bangla, Jai
Hind," she had said, wrapping up.
    Strongly reacting to Ghosh's Facebook post, TMC MP
Sougata Roy described it as "not worthy of response".
    "It is condemnable that the BJP is trying to import
its divisive communal brand of politics to Bengal," Roy added.
    TMC spokesman Kunal Ghosh said, "Ghosh has forgotten
that the BJP has increased its number by inducting former TMC
members which shows the bankruptcy of the saffron party". PTI
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