Friday, May 10

TMC Slams BJP MP Dilip Ghosh Over Controversial Remarks On Mamata Banerjee

Edited by Fazal Rahman Chembulangad
TMC Slams BJP MP Dilip Ghosh Over Controversial Remarks On Mamata Banerjee

Senior BJP leader and MP Dilip Ghosh has invited criticism following his derogatory remark ridiculing the family lineage of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The BJP leader reportedly said in a video that when Mamata Banerjee goes to Goa, she is the daughter of Goa, and in Tripura, she says she is the daughter of Tripura. The BJP MP, who is contesting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from the Medinipur constituency, was further heard asking the West Bengal Chief Minister to clarify her original background.

Dilip Ghosh’s remark appears as a reference to the TMC’s 2021 poll slogan “Bangla Nijer Meye ke chai (Bengal wants its own daughter)”.

However, the All Indian Trinamool Congress took to the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) lambasting the BJP leader for his comment in the purported video. The party called the BJP MP ‘a disgrace in the name of political leadership.’

Attacking the BJP leader, the TMC wrote that from challenging the lineage of Maa Durga to now questioning the ancestry of Mamata Banerjee, Dilip Ghosh has “wallowed in the filthiest depths of moral bankruptcy.”

The party further noted that it is crystal clear that the BJP leader showed zero respect for the women of Bengal. “Whether it be the revered goddess of Hinduism or the only woman Chief Minister of India,” the party wrote in its post.

West Bengal Woman and Child Development Minister Dr Shashi Panja demanded an immediate apology from the former BJP West Bengal president, adding that the BJP leader’s comment reflects the DNA of the saffron camp.

Trinamool Congress Youth Wing president Saayoni Ghosh sarcastically commented that for the BJP, no depth of disrespect towards women is too low. “This latest attack is another manifestation of the same,” the TMC leader wrote in his post on X.