Kolkata:
Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, caught on the backfoot over the RG Kar rape-murder case, hit again right now with a video that purportedly confirmed pro-separatist slogans at a protest rally. Trinamool spokesperson Riju Dutta, who posted the video on X, claimed it was a transparent indication that the protest was “hijacked by the Left and the extremely Left”.
“These Anti Nationals or City Naxals has no real interest in the justice for the sufferer, they simply need to propagate their Anti India Agenda! Let me be very clear – KASHMIR IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA & WILL ALWAYS BE!” his publish learn.
“I, humbly request all males & ladies of Kolkata attending such Rally’s…plz assume ten occasions earlier than falling of their lure and unknowingly encouraging such Anti India propaganda!” he added.
The undated video that accompanied the publish confirmed younger women and men elevating “Azadi” slogans for Kashmir as bystanders, together with Kolkata police personnel, watch. EDNBOX couldn’t independently confirm the video.
A case has been registered at Patuli Police station in Kolkata towards unknown individuals below the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Azadi slogans, whereas having their genesis in Kashmir, have turn into part of ladies’s motion within the nation. However there, the slogans have been tailored to demand freedom from the patriarchal system and rape tradition. It has turn into ladies’s battle cry for the liberty to make their very own determination and reside their very own lives.
The huge statewide protests over the August 9 rape-murder on the RG Kar hospital has principally seen the “We would like justice” slogan. However the Azadi slogans have been raised at ladies’s “Reclaim the evening” protests held alongside.
The flood of protests had caught the ruling Trinamool Congress unawares, particularly with a piece of their very own leaders being caught up within the public sentiment and criticizing the celebration. Considered one of its MPs, Jawahar Sircar, even stop parliament and the celebration in protest.
The Kashmir slogans seem to have handed the celebration – which had been claiming that the protests had been being backed by the Left – an opportunity to struggle again.