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BJP disowns leader’s bounty offer

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KOLKATA: The BJP on Wednesday disowned a youth leader who triggered outrage by offering Rs 11 lakh to anyone who beheads West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.


An unperturbed Banerjee said she considers such threats as “blessings”.


As the Trinamool Congress and Congress raised the issue angrily in Parliament, demanding action against Yogesh Varshney, the Bharatiya Janata Party distanced itself from the Aligarh-based leader.


BJP national Secretary Rahul Sinha said such comments cannot be condoned.


“We doubt if he has the credibility to be a BJP Yuva Morcha leader. Such comments cannot be supported by anyone. He has made a most militant-like statement,” Sinha said in Kolkata.


“We will continue to oppose Mamata Banerjee on political grounds. But the BJP does not approve the politics of hatred and murder though such extreme comments were made by Trinamool Congress leaders earlier,” he said.


Speaking in Murshidabad, Banerjee said: “I am being abused variously. I consider that as blessings. The more they abuse us, they more we will march forward.


“Now we are in Bengal. Slowly we will move on to Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Delhi, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.”


In the Lok Sabha, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ananth Kumar condemned the remarks.


“The statement... is completely wrong. We condemn it. Mamata Banerjee is an elected leader and she must be respected,” he said.


Varshney of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha made the statement after police clashed with people taking part in a Hanuman Jayanti rally in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Tuesday.


“She stands up for Muslims. Aren’t Hindus human beings? If there was some humanity, then there wouldn’t be so much discrimination against the Hindus,” he said after apparently seeing a video of police assaulting the rallyists to disperse them. — IANS


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