CM to address MPs as TMC raises protest pitch
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Kolkata: With Trinamool stepping up its attack on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and harassment of Bengali-speaking migrants back home, CM
Mamata Banerjee
will speak to her MPs virtually on Monday to outline TMC's strategy for the week.
The CM's address comes at a time TMC is raising its protest pitch, both in Delhi and Bengal. TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee is expected to address 9,000 party workers on Aug 5. He will also be part of INDIA bloc MPs' protest march to Nirvachan Sadan this week.
BJP has stalled any discussion on SIR in Parliament for the last 10 days, said TMC's Rajya Sabha leader Derek O'Brien. "The SIR vote 'chori' as a subject can easily be discussed in both Houses.
BJP is scared. We will give the shaky Modi coalition a tutorial in Parliament and teach them how it can be discussed," he said.
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According to sources, the MPs have already submitted multiple adjournment and Rule 267 notices in both Houses along with INDIA bloc parties demanding a discussion on SIR. On Sunday, TMC MPs submitted notices on the issue of Delhi Police calling the Bengali language the Bangladeshi language, demanding a discussion in Parliament.
Speaking at a presser at Trinamool Bhawan, state education minister Bratya Basu said: "They (BJP) are forgetting that it is because of the Bengali language that a new country was formed. Twenty-five crore people speak this language. Our national anthem and the national songs of two countries have been written in this language."
"This is a UNESCO-recognised language and one of the first seven languages of the world.
When Tamil Nadu got statehood, people gave their lives in a hunger strike. Even today, you can't enter Tamil Nadu while speaking Hindi. But you can speak all languages in Bengal. CM Mamata Banerjee even fights for Toto or Rajbanshi languages," Basu said.
"This Hindi imposition goes against the vision of India. You cannot insult Bengali. You cannot label us as a citizen of some other nation. Hindi is a great language, but why are you insulting our Rabindranath Tagore, our DL Ray, our Nazrul Islam?" he added.
Urging Bengal BJP netas to speak up, Basu said: "BJP netas in Bengal, even if you speak in Bengali, speak up against this discrimination."
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