{"id":3264,"date":"2018-11-13T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T03:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:43:56","slug":"bjps-rath-yatra-fails-to-get-government-nod-yet-party-may-move-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjps-rath-yatra-fails-to-get-government-nod-yet-party-may-move-court\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s rath yatra fails to get government nod yet, party may move court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal has been planning to kickstart its 2019 poll campaign right from December this year through its grand rath yatras covering all 42 constituencies in the state. But the Mamata Banerjee government hasn\u2019t yet responded to the BJP\u2019s application for permission, prompting the BJP chief Dilip Ghosh to say that his party might move court in this context.<\/p>\n<p>The first rath yatra will be taken out on December 5, to be flagged off by BJP national president Amit Shah, from Birbhum\u2019s Tarapith. The second one will start from Cooch Behar district on December 7. The third rathyatra will start from Kakdwip of South 24 Parganas district on December 9.<\/p>\n<p>However, Ghosh said that while the party had informed the Bengal government about their detailed itinerary, there has been no response yet. \u201cWe wanted to discuss it with the government but they turned us down. We may have to move court if they don\u2019t give us permission,\u201d Ghosh said. He added that all documents to be submitted to the court \u2013 if such a situation does arise \u2013 were all ready.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the BJP\u2019s West Bengal Mahila Morcha president <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjps-locket-chatterjee-says-those-trying-to-stop-the-partys-rath-yatra-will-get-crushed-under-its-wheels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Locket Chatterjee said that anyone trying to disrupt and stop the party\u2019s \u201crath yatra\u201d will get crushed under its wheels<\/span><\/a>. She said the rath yatras were aimed at restoring democracy in Bengal and any attempt to stop it won\u2019t be tolerated. \u201cAnyone trying to stop it will get crushed under the wheels of the chariot,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling Trinamool Congress reacted sharply. The party\u2019s general secretary Partha Chatterjee said that the BJP leaders were encouraging communal discord and trying to disturb the stability of the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal has been planning to kickstart its 2019 poll campaign right from December this year through its grand rath yatras covering all 42 constituencies in the state. But the Mamata Banerjee government hasn\u2019t yet responded to the BJP\u2019s application for permission, prompting the BJP chief Dilip Ghosh to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":3265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}