Kolkata:
Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, caught on the backfoot over the RG Kar rape-murder case, hit again at this time 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 only need to propagate their Anti India Agenda! Let me be very clear – KASHMIR IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIA & WILL ALWAYS BE!” his submit learn.
“I, humbly request all males & girls of Kolkata attending such Rally’s…plz suppose ten occasions earlier than falling of their lure and unknowingly encouraging such Anti India propaganda!” he added.
The undated video that accompanied the submit 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 underneath the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Azadi slogans, whereas having their genesis in Kashmir, have develop into part of girls’s motion within the nation. However there, the slogans have been tailored to demand freedom from the patriarchal system and rape tradition. It has develop into girls’s battle cry for the liberty to make their very own choice and stay their very own lives.
The large statewide protests over the August 9 rape-murder on the RG Kar hospital has principally seen the “We wish justice” slogan. However the Azadi slogans have been raised at girls’s “Reclaim the night time” 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. One in all its MPs, Jawahar Sircar, even give up 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 battle again.