Kolkata:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned immediately that she is going to go to the Kalighat temple on January 22, the day the Ayodhya Ram temple might be consecrated.
“You all maintain asking me about varied temples. I’ve nothing to say about it. I say faith is a private problem, festivals are for everybody. We have fun January 23, January 26. On January 22, we are going to maintain a rally,” she mentioned.
After providing puja at Kalighat, one of many largest pilgrim centres of jap India, she is going to maintain a rally on behalf of her Trinamool Congress celebration, the Chief Minister mentioned.
The “Sarba Dharm (all area) rally” will embrace individuals from all communities and can contact varied spiritual locations — temples, church buildings, Gurudwaras and mosques on its route.
The rally will finish at south Kolkata’s Park Circus Maidan, the place a public assembly might be held.
That day, Trinamool can even maintain block-wise rallies throughout Bengal with a “Sampriti (Affection)” theme, Ms Banerjee mentioned. All religions are equal and folks from all religions and communities might be current within the rally, her celebration has mentioned.
Ms Banerjee, who was among the many Opposition leaders who’re planning to steer clear of the Ayodhya Ram temple consecration, has declined, calling it a “political gimmick”.
Requested in regards to the matter, she mentioned, “I consider in a competition which takes everybody collectively, talks about everybody… Do no matter you need, you’re doing a gimmick earlier than the elections, do it, I’ve no drawback however disregarding individuals of different communities isn’t proper… I’ll by no means enable discrimination between Hindus and Muslims so long as I stay”.
Her refusal landed her in a BJP poster alongside Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Chowdhury, CPM’s Sitaram Yechuri and Samajwadi Get together chef Akhilesh Yadav – leaders who’ve refused to attend the consecration ceremony. The BJP, which earlier accuse them of appeasement, has now dubbed them “anti-Hindu”.
The poster, posted on X by the BJP, ran with a caption that learn, “Notice the faces of the Sanatan opponents who rejected the invitation for the Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony…”.
