After a spate of incidents where people chanting Jai Shri Ram were punished and ridiculed by Mamata Banerjea, social media is abuzz with people saying Jai Shri Ram to Didi.
Twitterati have shared the official West Bengal chief minister’s email id, cm@wb.gov.in, urging people to send greetings with ‘Jai Shree Ram’ to the chief minister.
Previously, Mamata went into a meltdown when locals chanted Jai Shri Ram as her convoy was passing. Mamata purportedly threatened to flay the skins of locals and demanded that the authorities conduct a house to house search to identify locals who dared to chant Jai Shri Ram slogans and allegedly also attacked her car. She was heard demanding that the sloganeers face her and proceeded to abuse and call them criminals. She also dismissed the people as “outsiders” and not natives of Bengal and vowed to “take action”.
During the Lok Sabha election as well, Mamata was angered over Mednipur locals chanting Jai Shri Ram and had got three of them arrested. The BJP later won that Lok Sabha seat. The West Bengal Police reportedly arrested 10 people for chanting Jai Shri Ram at state Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s convoy.
Mamata reportedly also instructed the state intelligence agencies to identify and map areas where she is likely to encounter Jai Shri Ram chants. Her reaction to the slogan seems to have encouraged more and more people to use it to greet her.