West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee led a ‘Sanhati rally’ (rally for communal harmony) in Kolkata on the day of consecration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 and used the platform to throw a challenge at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the upcoming Lok Sabha election.
Ms. Banerjee accused the BJP of indulging in “politics over religion” and labelled the saffron party “anti-women” for “omitting” Sita from its discourse on Ram. “They [BJP] talk about Ram, but what about Sita? She was all along with Ram during his exile. They don’t speak about her as they are anti-women. We are worshippers of Goddess Durga, so they should not try to lecture us about religion,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson said.
