Kolkata 14 Aug, Kolkata : While protests over the topic of corruption are rising in West Bengal and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is being targeted in several cases, senior leaders of Trinamool Congress have started losing control of the use of insults against protesters in public gatherings.The use of abusive language is no longer restricted to the elements that are typical of these verbal insults, the well-educated and genteel leaders also have begun using language of threat.
Take the example of Trinamool Congress’s well-educated and articulate Lok Sabha member from the Dum Dum constituency, Saugata Roy who was an ex-professor of Physics at a reputed college in Kolkata prior to his retirement just a couple of years ago.
In the past, Roy, who had been extremely critical of the use of inappropriate language or abuse by a few of his own party members on Sunday, reportedly threatened the opposition as well as the protesters.”Trinamool Congress has been given a specific mandate to govern until 2026, and we will remain in control until that point.If the opposition thinks that they are able to speak or act in the name of protest then we will take their skins and make footwear out of it.Be prepared for that day,” said Roy from an event held in the Kamarhati area of his constituency on Sunday .
Similar to Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha member, Kalyan Banerjee who is also a senior counsel of the Calcutta High Court, resorted to throwing of similar threatening abuses at an event held at Chinsurah in Hooghly district late on Saturday evening.”If Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee are attacked and the opposition parties are vilified, they will be beaten to death.When she became the leader in West Bengal in 2011, Mamata Banerjee said that she wanted to change her mind instead of retribution.
But I am now convinced that her assumption was incorrect.But the way in the way that CPI-M, Congress and BJP are using to denigrate politics it is clear that revenge is the only option right now,” Banerjee said.
On Sunday, Trinamool Congress maverick and non-conformist legislator from the Kamarhati district, Madan Mitra advised his followers to practice stick fights and to set up special centers to train on this subject.”I as MLA of Kamarhati will provide those sticks,”” Mitra said.
CPI-M central committee member, and former leader of Left Parties in West Bengal Assembly, Sujan Chakraborty said that such remarks were untrue from a well-educated politician from Saugata Roy.”Actually, Trinamool Congress leadership are now extremely scared as protests are planned by not only opposition parties, but also the self-motivated populace in all,” he said.
The BJP’s national vice-president as well as the party’s MP, Dilip Ghosh, said that insinuating remarks from the leaders of the ruling party are causing a lot of trouble for the people more and they are becoming organized against hooliganism and corruption.”The people will provide them with the right answer when they are ready,” he said/
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