Two months after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) swept the West Bengal State Legislative polls, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has introduced to commemorate her election slogan within the type of ‘Khela Hobe Diwas‘.
While talking concerning the matter within the state meeting, she stated, “People have appreciated ‘Khela Hobe’, so we will have ‘Khela Hobe Diwas’.” Written by Debangshu Bhattacharya, Mamata Banerjee had coined the time period ‘Khela hobe’ (we can have a match) as Trinamool Congress’ election slogan, forward of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha polls.
People have appreciated ‘Khela Hobe’, so we can have ‘Khela Hobe Diwas’: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee within the Assembly (file pic) pic.twitter.com/ih5eIGEIKo— ANI (@ANI) July 6, 2021
‘Khela Hobe’ and the weaponisation of political violence
Initially, the slogan appeared as a innocent jibe towards the opposition however quickly began to showcase its true colors. At the very onset, TMC members made a wall portray in Bengal whereby Mamata Banerjee was seen hitting PM Modi’s head as an alternative of a soccer. During her election rallies, the West Bengal Chief Minister continued to provoke her occasion staff to retaliate towards the central armed forces and BJP staff. Several situations of violence had been thus reported in the course of the numerous levels of polling.
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh alleged his convoy was attacked in Cooch Behar with not simply stones and bricks but in addition bombs by TMC staff. The residence of scientist Govardhan Das was additionally ambushed by the miscreants, leading to him being trapped in his personal home together with different relations. Women in West Bengal have moved the Supreme Court narrating the main points of the horrifying gang-rapes they had been subjected to within the post-poll violence by the members of the ruling occasion. They had sought SIT probe into all of the incidents in addition to alleged inaction of the police.
‘Khela’ was bloody and violent in Bengal
During post-poll violence, over two dozen BJP karyakartas had been killed. In a report submitted by the Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA), it was talked about that those that suffered the wrath of TMC staff after successful the elections had been from marginal sections of Hindu society who had voted for the BJP. Last month, the fact-finding committee, constituted to inquire concerning the post-poll violence in West Bengal following a Calcutta High Court order, revealed that the violence in Bengal was not sporadic or spontaneous however well-planned and premeditated.
Sharing additional particulars, the committee knowledgeable that many supporters of a political occasion had been pressured to flee their houses attributable to a focused assault. Houses had been burnt and ransacked with the victims made to offer in writing that they won’t help a selected political occasion. The members additional revealed that the perpetrators additionally disrupted the water connection and destroyed the bridge that led to a village because the villagers supported one political occasion. Additionally, the victims had been denied work and made to apologize for his or her help to the opponent occasion.
How Mamata Banerjee plans on celebrating post-poll violence?
When the Trinamool Congress got here ahead with the ‘Khela Hobe’ slogan, little did the BJP know concerning the lasting implication of such a recreation of massacre. The slogan, although it sounds innocent, grew to become a struggle cry for Trinamool Congress goons to loot, maim, slaughter, and rape the rival BJP staff in an act of political vengeance. The extra the slogan was repeated by the best echelons of the TMC, the occasion’s foot troopers had been extra bolstered to go about their actions unabated.
Despite being well-aware of the implications of the slogan on the lives of numerous individuals, the West Bengal Chief Minister has determined to put aside a day to have fun her election slogan of ‘Khela Hobe’. An elected authorities doesn’t characterize those that voted for it but in addition those that didn’t. But, maintaining apart all ethical and moral obligations required to run a authorities, the Trinamool Congress dispensation has determined to have fun the carnage that it efficiently unleashed throughout and after the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha polls.