"Ek Bihari, Sau Bimari": Trinamool MLA's Viral Video Prompts BJP Attack
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Manoranjan Byapari called people from Bihar a "bimaari" or disease and says Bengal should be "disease-free", in a video that has gone viral.
A leader of Mamata Banerjee's party in Bengal has provoked a controversy with his anti-Bihar rant at a public meeting. Trinamool MLA Manoranjan Byapari has called people from Bihar a "bimaari" or disease and says Bengal should be "disease-free", in a video that has gone viral. My humble question to Bihari Babu Shri @ShatruganSinha ji, Sir, what do you feel about this disgraceful rant of TMC MLA Manoranjan Byapari?Your new party colleague is very transparent about his feelings towards Biharis. His recent speech at the Kolkata International Book Fair: pic.twitter.com/3vtVln6tdH First his leader @MamataOfficial labels Biharis & UPites as "Bohiragotos" & now this clarion call to make Bengal free of Biharis.@BJP4Bihar@BJP4India@renu_bjp@SanjayJaisw@girirajsinghbjp@BJP4Jharkhand@YashwantSinha@PavanK_Varma
"If Bengali blood runs through your veins...If the blood of Khudiram and Netaji (Subhash Chandra Bose) runs through your veins and if you love your mother tongue and motherland, then you have to shout out loud - 'Ek Bihari, sou bimari' (One Bihar person is equal to 100 diseases)'. We don't want diseases. Make Bengal disease-free. Jai Bangla, Jai Didi Mamata Banerjee," Manoranjan Byapari said at the recent Kolkata Book Fair.
He was also heard saying: "If everything is fine in Bihar, then s***la go back to Bihar."
The remarks were called out by the BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, a former Trinamool Congress leader, who shared the video on Twitter.
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