{"id":330560,"date":"2021-01-25T10:37:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330560"},"modified":"2021-01-25T10:37:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T10:37:52","slug":"insulted-in-front-of-pm-mamata-banerjee-slams-bjp-over-netaji-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/insulted-in-front-of-pm-mamata-banerjee-slams-bjp-over-netaji-event\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Insulted in front of PM\u2019: Mamata Banerjee slams BJP over Netaji event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330561 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/mamata-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/mamata-2.jpg 571w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/mamata-2-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/mamata-2-520x420.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, slammed the BJP, over the Victoria Memorial incident on January 23, where the BJP supporters chanted &#8216;Jai Shri Ram&#8217; before she began speaking at an event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said that the saffron party has insulted West Bengal and it will not be tolerated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is everyone&#8217;s leader&#8230;They were teasing me in front of the Prime Minister&#8230; I don&#8217;t believe in guns, I believe in politics. BJP has insulted Netaji and Bengal,&#8221; Banerjee said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Recently many leaders of the Trinamool Congress joined BJP including prominent names like Suvendu Adhikari.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said those who want to leave TMC should leave as early as possible. \u201cBengal and TMC don\u2019t need you. \u201cThe party would have not given them a ticket so they are leaving in fear,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Saturday, Mamata refused to speak at an event organised to celebrate Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose&#8217;s birth anniversary. She said she was insulted at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mamata said the dignity of government programmes must be maintained because it is not the programme of a political party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday, slammed the BJP, over the Victoria Memorial incident on January 23, where the BJP supporters chanted &#8216;Jai Shri Ram&#8217; before she began speaking at an event. Mamata said that the saffron party has insulted West Bengal and it will not be tolerated. &#8220;Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1889,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330560"}],"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=330560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330562,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330560\/revisions\/330562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}