{"id":4180,"date":"2019-01-30T12:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T07:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=4180"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:44","slug":"rajnath-singh-and-mamata-in-angry-argument-after-amit-shah-rally-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/rajnath-singh-and-mamata-in-angry-argument-after-amit-shah-rally-in-bengal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath Singh and Mamata in angry argument after Amit Shah rally in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Following the violence that erupted minutes after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah\u2019s rally ended yesterday at Kanthi, a town 150 kilometres outside Kolkata, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and Union home minister Rajnath Singh had an exchange of angry words.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The home minister called Mamata Banerjee yesterday afternoon after reports of violence emerged from Kanthi when the chief minister is reported to have told him to \u2018control his party\u2019 and not \u2018provoke trouble in peaceful Bengal\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kanthi turned into a veritable battlefield after Amit Shah\u2019s rally. Trinamool offices were attacked, buses stoned and motorcycles set on fire. Even the traffic on the state highway stood paralysed as reports of violence kept trickling in till late evening. To control the situation, a huge police deployment was made.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">While Trinamool leaders have accused the BJP supporters of launching a \u2018pre-planned\u2019 attack with bricks and lathis and ransacking their own vehicles, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra has retorted saying that TMC now stands for \u2018Talibani Mamatar Karmo\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Seeking a detailed report within 24 hours, the Union home minister had called up Mamata Banerjee. Sources report that the chief minister replied asking Rajnath Singh to \u2018control\u2019 the BJP\u2019s leaders and not disrupt peace in Bengal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Amit Shah\u2019s rally yesterday, the BJP leader attacked the Mamata government for the ponzi scams which he said took place under its watch. Swearing that his party would make the guilty party \u2018vomit\u2019 out all the money they have stolen from the unsuspecting depositors, he mocked the West Bengal chief minister for not taking any action against the \u2018chit-fund wallas\u2019 as they paid hefty amounts of money for her paintings.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The BJP has set the target of 23 out of 42 seats in West Bengal in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the violence that erupted minutes after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah\u2019s rally ended yesterday at Kanthi, a town 150&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180","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=4180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}