Trinamool Congress slams Amit Shah over appeasement remark

The Trinamool Congress management on Friday slammed Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his “appeasement remark” and mentioned communal politics has no place in Bengal.

Mocking Mr. Shah’s scheduled go to to a Matua household for lunch, the celebration described his refugee neighborhood outreach as a “poll gimmick” to divert consideration from atrocities dedicated on backward communities in States dominated by the saffron celebration.

Stressing that there was a necessity to revive West Bengal’s “lost glory”, Mr. Shah on Friday, throughout his go to to the Dakshineswar temple, mentioned the current “appeasement politics” within the State has damage its age-old custom of upholding the nation’s religious consciousness.

Mr. Shah, who’s on a two-day go to to Bengal to take inventory of organisational actions, forward of the 2021 State polls, had on Thursday mentioned he might sense huge public anger towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities and that the dying knell of her regime has been sounded.

“What does Amit Shah mean by appeasement politics? Was he speaking as a BJP activist or as the Union Home Minister of the country? The government has to treat all communities with equality and respect. I don’t think it is a crime to do something for the development of minorities in the State,” senior Trinamool chief and MP Sougato Roy mentioned.

He sought to know why Mr. Shah ignored the truth that the Bengal authorities had allowed Durga Puja celebrations, even when many BJP-ruled States cancelled it.

“Why is he not speaking about the State government’s decision to allow Durga Puja celebrations? Was it minority appeasement? I would want to say that communalism has no place in West Bengal. The people of the State will reject BJP’s divisive politics,” he added.

Echoing him, State minister Firhad Hakim, too, took a jibe at Mr. Shah over his scheduled lunch at a Matua household’s residence and mentioned it was a determined try to idiot folks.

“In all BJP-ruled States, tribals, Dalits and those from the backward communities are being tortured. There are reports of atrocities everywhere,” he mentioned.

“So this drama of having lunch at the house of a person from the Matua community is nothing but a poll gimmick before the Assembly elections. But he can’t fool people every time, and the Matuas are very well aware of the BJP’s double standards,” Mr. Hakim mentioned.

The Matuas, initially from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), had been migrating to West Bengal because the Fifties, principally as a consequence of non secular persecution. The neighborhood, with an estimated inhabitants of three million within the State, influences not less than 4 Lok Sabha seats and 40 Assembly seats in Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas districts.

According to State BJP sources, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), which was handed within the Parliament final 12 months, is probably going to assist a number of refugee communities such because the Matuas to acquire citizenship of the nation.

The CAA will profit greater than 1.5 crore folks throughout the nation, together with over 72 lakh within the West Bengal, the sources mentioned.