The Trinamool Congress has started a campaign against Home Minister Amit Shah branding him as “India’s Biggest Pappu” after its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee used the phrase last week to attack Mr. Shah soon after he was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the coal smuggling case.
Mr. Banerjee’s cousins Akash Banerjee and Aditi Gayen, took to social media wearing T-shirts with Mr. Shah’s photograph and “India’s biggest Pappu” written over them. The party’s youth wing is planning to popularise the T-shirt ahead of the Durga Puja festivities. Sources in the Trinamool said Abhishek Banerjee has planned the T-shirt campaign.
The word “pappu” entered Indian political lexicon after the BJP starting using it as a taunt against former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
