Bengal BJP Washing Ambedkar Statue With Ganga Jal An "Insult": Trinamool
NDTV
BJP MLAs, led by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday washed the statue of B R Ambedkar with Ganga water in the West Bengal Assembly premises.
The Trinamool Congress on Friday termed the washing of Ambedkar statue with 'ganga jal' by BJP in the Assembly premises as an insult to tribal, OBC and women MLAs of the TMC and announced protests on December 2 against alleged atrocities against weaker section and minorities under the "saffron ecosystem".
In a press meeting, jointly addressed by state Parliamentary Affairs minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, TMC Deputy Chief Whip Tapas Roy, TMC ministers Chandrima Bhattacharya and Birbaha Hansda, the Trinamool Congress said by resorting to such "cheap stunts" the BJP is trying to hush up its "poor track record in safeguarding the rights" of dalits, OBCs, minorities and civil liberty activists.
"Did the BJP ever show respect to Dalits, to women by any action and words of its leaders in past? A BJP leader even made disparaging comments against a popular tribal leader like Birbaha Hansda who is also a woman. And now they are raising the outrageous point about B R Ambedkar's statue being sullied by the presence of our legislators, who include women and tribals and OBCs. This is an insult to women and tribals and other backward castes," Bhattacharya said.
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