Kolkata: 25 Jan 21 Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — still smarting from the “Jai Shri Ram” slogans at the Netaji birth anniversary programme — launched a furious attack on the BJP today, accusing them of insulting all cultural icons of the state from Rabindranath Tagore to revolutionary Santhal leader Birsa Munda. Ahead of the coming elections, the Centre and the state had clashed even before the event was held. The Centre had declared the day “Parakram Diwas”, denying state requests to christen it the ‘Desh Nayak Diwas’. “I went to their programme and some aggressive, fanatic traitors dared to tease me in front of the PM. They don’t know me. If you point a gun at me I will show you the armoury. But I don’t believe in politics by the gun,” the Chief Minister said at a programme today.
