{"id":312244,"date":"2019-05-15T14:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312244"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:22:32","slug":"tmc-gives-ec-proof-in-support-of-claim-that-bjp-workers-damaged-vidyasagar-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tmc-gives-ec-proof-in-support-of-claim-that-bjp-workers-damaged-vidyasagar-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"TMC gives EC &#8216;Proof&#8217; in support of claim that BJP workers damaged Vidyasagar statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312245 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-696x516.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien-566x420.jpg 566w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/derek-o-brien.jpg 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday released a video to claim that BJP supporters damaged the statue of renowned Bengal reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar during violence in Kolkata and submitted proof to the Election commission (EC)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC leader Derek O&#8217;Brien, speaking at what he called the &#8220;saddest press conference we have held&#8221;, said: &#8220;Amit Shah is a liar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The reaction from the TMC came close on the heels of BJP president Amit Shah accusing the TMC party of indulging in violence in the state and alleged that the poll panel has been a &#8220;mute spectator&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Derek O Brien said, \u201cthe students were on a democratic protest with black placards. Amit Shah goons from outside Bengal orchestrated the violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe BJP is trying to justify this act. They are giving excuses like the gate was locked. The videos established the truth,\u201d Derek added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe are trying to obtain and authenticate audio of slogans like \u2018Vidyasagar finished, where is the Josh\u2019 raised during the violence,\u201d Derek said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also alleged that the BJP candidates are entering polling booths, accompanied by Central forces and coercing people to vote for the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Clashes erupted between BJP and TMC supporters on Tuesday on the streets of Kolkata during a massive road show by Amit Shah, who escaped unhurt.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday released a video to claim that BJP supporters damaged the statue of renowned Bengal reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar during violence in Kolkata and submitted proof to the Election commission (EC) TMC leader Derek O&#8217;Brien, speaking at what he called the &#8220;saddest press conference we have held&#8221;, said: &#8220;Amit Shah is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[11347,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312244"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312248,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312244\/revisions\/312248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}