Mamata Banerjee dubs Pulwama terror assault as ‘staged occasion’

On Friday (July 21), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee courted controversy for making an attempt to go off the 2019 Pulwama terror assault as a ‘staged incident.’ She made the contentious remarks in the course of the Martyr’s Day rally at Esplanade in Kolkata.

At about 14 minutes and 37 seconds into her speech, Banerjee claimed, “I will tell the students and the youth that the BJP is planning to pull off staged events such as Pulwama (terror attack).”

“They are planning to create fake, staged videos like in movies. They will stage dramas, shoot videos and defame Bengal. This is their conspiracy,” she brazened it out.

Martyrs’ Day rally is the annual occasion of Trinamool Congress. It is held to commemorate the demise of 13 Youth Congress staff killed in a police firing in Kolkata in 1993. Mamata Banerjee was the State president of the Indian Youth Congress on the time of the incident.

Pulwama suicide bombing assault and a lesson for Hindus

On February 14, 2019, a convoy of automobiles carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel to Srinagar through National Highway 44 got here below a suicide bombing assault.

A 22-year-old Adil Ahmad Dar, a Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist from Kakapora in Jammu and Kashmir, rammed his explosive-laden car right into a bus carrying the CRPF personnel. 40 of our jawans have been martyred.

While India was nonetheless mourning the assault, a video of Adil went viral on social media. Recorded previous to the suicide bombing, it gave out a transparent message that the Pulwama assault was not simply restricted to the Indian State however was additionally an act of vengeance in opposition to the Hindu majority.

Pulwama suicide bomber Adil Dar additionally cracked a Gaumutra joke earlier than blowing himself aside https://t.co/iOkCBrNAiZ pic.twitter.com/ufdTZUSTsY

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In the video, the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist dehumanised the Hindu group as ‘Hindustan ka Napak mushrikon‘ (impure idol worshippers of India) and ‘Gae ka Peshab Peene Walon’ (cow piss drinkers).

The selective utilization of slurs focusing on the Hindu group, which considers cows as sacred, made it clear that the Pulwama assault was not simply one other case of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. It was additionally on Hindus, the ‘cow piss drinkers.’