{"id":312381,"date":"2019-05-16T11:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312381"},"modified":"2019-05-16T11:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T11:23:20","slug":"bengal-has-enough-resources-to-rebuild-vidyasagar-statue-dont-need-bjps-money-says-mamata-banerjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bengal-has-enough-resources-to-rebuild-vidyasagar-statue-dont-need-bjps-money-says-mamata-banerjee\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengal has enough resources to rebuild Vidyasagar statue, don\u2019t need BJP\u2019s money; says Mamata Banerjee"},"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-309017 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"497\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/mamata-b.jpg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Bengal has enough resources to rebuild the iconic Vidyasagar statue that was vandalised during BJP President Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow. She said Bengal does not need money from 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;\">\u201cWhy should we take their (BJP&#8221;s) money,\u201d Mamata said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a rally in Bengal\u2019s Mathurapur, Mamata said, \u201cThe BJP has destroyed the 200-year-old heritage of West Bengal, those supporting the party will not be accepted by the society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said, \u201cshe is not scared to speak the truth and ready to go to jail\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She accused the Election Commission (EC) of being partial and said it was behaving like \u201cBJP\u2019s brother\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi today at a rally in Uttar Pradesh had promised to build the statue at the same spot where his bust was vandalised during the clashes at Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said Bengal has enough resources to rebuild the iconic Vidyasagar statue that was vandalised during BJP President Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow. She said Bengal does not need money from the BJP. \u201cWhy should we take their (BJP&#8221;s) money,\u201d Mamata said. Addressing a rally in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[3939,1889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312381"}],"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=312381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312382,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312381\/revisions\/312382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}