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Shah: Where else to take Ram’s name, in Pak?

GHATAL/BISHNUPUR/(WB): BJP president Amit Shah today alleged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is not allowing people to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the state, and wondered if the Lord’s name cannot be taken in India, will it be uttered in Pakistan.

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Ghatal/Bishnupur/(WB), May 7

BJP president Amit Shah today alleged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is not allowing people to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ in the state, and wondered if the Lord’s name cannot be taken in India, will it be uttered in Pakistan.

Shah also dared Banerjee to arrest him for chanting ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at the multiple election rallies he addressed in the state today.

“Lord Ram is a part of the culture of India... Can anybody stop people from taking his name? I want to ask Mamata didi, if Shri Ram’s name is not taken in India, will it be chanted in Pakistan?” he said. He addressed rallies in Ghatal, Keshiari and Bishnupur in West Bengal.

Shah claimed that Banerjee had stopped her car a few days ago to tell people that they will be put in jail if they chant the name of Lord Ram.

A video had appeared in the social media that showed Banerjee stopping her car at a place in West Midnapore district on Saturday, and chasing some persons who chanted ‘Jai Shri Ram’ as her cavalcade was crossing the area.

Shah said he had come to know that the CM had cancelled permission for two rallies of PM Narendra Modi in the state — one at Purulia and the other at Bankura, scheduled for Thursday.

“Can you (Banerjee) prevent your defeat in this manner?” he said. On Modi invoking the Bofors scandal, the BJP president wondered if reminding people what had happened was tantamount to insulting former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

“What wrong has PM Narendra Modi done by saying that the Bofors scam happened during Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure... Rahul baba says his father has been insulted. Is it an insult to be reminded of what had happened?” Shah said.

The BJP chief was referring to Modi’s recent remarks at a rally in Uttar Pradesh, where he said Rajiv Gandhi’s life ended as “bhrashtachari No. 1” (corrupt No. 1).

Shah also asked Rahul Gandhi whether or not the Bofors scandal, the Bhopal gas tragedy, blunder of sending peacekeeping force to Sri Lanka or the massacre of Kashmiri pandits happened during his father’s tenure as prime minister from 1984 to 1989.

He claimed the Congress and its ‘mahagathbandhan’ partners had “abused Modi on 51 different occasions”.

Shah said Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi recently likened Modi to the character of Duryodhana from the ‘Mahabharata’, and asserted “people of the country will tell on May 23 whether PM Modi is Duryodhana or Arjuna. — PTI

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