{"id":301397,"date":"2018-08-14T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T08:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301397"},"modified":"2018-08-17T07:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T07:06:36","slug":"mamata-accuses-bjp-of-revenge-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-accuses-bjp-of-revenge-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata accuses BJP of playing revenge politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300818 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee-478x420.jpg 478w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/mbanerjee.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday attacked the BJP-led central government over the exclusion of 40 lakh people in the final draft of Assam-NRC and accused them of being &#8220;anti-Bengalis&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Questioning the criteria on which 40 lakh people have been excluded, she said they are very much Indians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC chief asked if hilsa fish, Jamdani saree, sandesh and mishti doi, which are originally from Bangladesh, would also be branded as &#8220;infiltrators or refugees&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;What is going on in the country is injustice. The BJP with their extremist ideology is trying to create division among the people. I think they are playing the politics of revenge among the countrymen. We are not for this kind of politics,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata accused the BJP of being &#8220;anti-Bengalis&#8221; and &#8220;anti-West Bengal&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday attacked the BJP-led central government over the exclusion of 40 lakh people in the final draft of Assam-NRC and accused them of being &#8220;anti-Bengalis&#8221;. Questioning the criteria on which 40 lakh people have been excluded, she said they are very much Indians. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":300818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[4141,2267,453,1889,1486,2530,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301399,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301397\/revisions\/301399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}