Mamata to address twin rallies in Asansol on Saturday
Law minister Moloy Ghatak, chairman of AMC, Amarnath Chatterjee and other top TMC leaders inspected both the venues in Asansol and Kulti, today.
A debate that was triggered by photos and posters of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, civic body chairman Nihar Ranjan Ghosh and vice-chairman Dulal Sarkar with Netaji marred the yearly programme of the English Bazaar Municipality (EBM) organized to celebrate the birthday of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose here on Wednesday.
Opposition leader of the civic body, Narendra Nath Tewary, expressed disgust over the matter, while Mr Ghosh, who admitted the fault, however, spoke of a “probable conspiracy” behind the entire incident. People gathered there to witness the function also condemned the matter as “shameful.” “This attempt to have their own pictures in a same frame of a national hero like Netaji cannot be tolerated.
The chief minister should now rethink of her decision to name such people as the chief of a civic body,” said Mr Tewary as he returned to his Ward office to mark the day. According to sources, Netaji’s 122nd birth anniversary celebrations were organized at Netaji More under the English Bazaar police station this morning, while to the utter surprise and shock of all gathered there, there was a poster under the name of the EBM put up on the stage that had the photo of Netaji in the middle, flanked by Miss Banerjee on one side and Mr Ghosh and Mr Sarkar on the other.
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“The crowd started whispering, and condemning the act, and as if in a damage- control mode, the poster was later taken off. Someone in the gathering remarked that people should make a habit of these things, as they will continue until the Trinamul Congress remains as the ruling party in the state,” the sources said. “It is a fault on our part, but we do not know how it happened.
We are sorry for this, and I must say that there must have been a conspiracy of the opposition behind this act,” Mr Ghosh said. Mr Sarkar added that they would look into the matter as the poster had been printed by some private enterprise and put up by some group-D worker of the EBM.
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