At the event held to mark the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata on January 23, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata did not deliver her speech “in protest” after ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans were raised when she was invited to speak. The chief minister said “government programme should have some dignity” and it “is not fair to insult somebody whom you have invited”. The event was presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. So what exactly angered Mamata Banerjee? Speaking exclusively to Zee News, Trinamool Congress MP from Basirhat and actor Nusrat Jahan said that it was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s strategy to harass the West Bengal Chief Minister by shouting slogans like Jai Shree Ram.
She asked, “This is a political slogan for the BJP, not a religious slogan. Why else aren’t they taking names of other Gods?” She also said that the BJP is an “outsider” in the state and its leaders “do not know our culture and tradition, they garland…
