Yogi is angry with Mamata Banerjee for allegedly not allowing chanting of the Jai Sri Ram slogan in the state, but he did not feel ashamed at his own act of allowing the goons chanting Jai Sri Ram to outrage the modesty of law and order in his own state. This nature of dualism being resorted to by the BJP leaders has certainly not come as unexpected development, what really hurts is that many Indians turn their eyes and look other way ignoring the inhuman acts of these votaries of Hindutva.

BJP has been striving hard to make cow smuggling, and love jihad as major electoral issues. Even his leaders Narendra Modi and Amit Shah have been desperately trying to use these two issues to fire the imagination of the Hindus of the state. But they could not succeed in their mission. These two issues have been featuring prominently on the agenda of the BJP leaders only for the reason that are somehow related to the cultural ethos of the Bengali society. If they succeed in their efforts to prick these issues, they could claim to have achieved success in their mission.

In the initial stage the prime minister and his lieutenant Amit Shah have tried to project their governance to underline the failure of the Mamata’s administration. They would continue to lay emphasis on development and good governance. Modi coming to the state on March 7 will focus extensively on it. But their main thrust would be on love jihad and cow smuggling as they know these religious-emotive issues will arouse the Hindu emotions.

Yogi does not feel ashamed at the large scale killing of innocent poor people in UP, but he is worried that Mamata Banerjee’s “appeasement politics has turned Bengal into a lawless state”. He says; “Love jihad is being executed here. We made a law in UP, but here things are different owing to appeasement politics. It is because of this that the state government is unable to stop cow smuggling and love jihad dangerous activities that will show results in times to come”.

His observation; "Appeasement politics for the sake of vote bank has endangered the security of not only West Bengal but also of the country. The TMC government has a problem with refugees getting citizenship but has no issue with illegal immigrants coming to the state,” unravelled the conspiracy that the BJP leadership has been hatching against the state. With a person like Jagdeep Dhankar as the Governor, it would an easy task for the BJP to unleash a bloody terror for accomplishing its mission.

Mamata Banerjee is under moral obligation to clarify about the increase in crime, but Yogi ought to do more introspection. In just four years, crimes against women increased in Uttar Pradesh by over 66 per cent. Registered cases of crimes against women have consistently risen nationwide since 2015, according to a 2019 report. In 2019, there were 3,486 cases of rape against SC women including girls, and 3,375 cases of assault, each constituting around 7 per cent to 8 per cent of total crimes against Scheduled Castes. Cases of rape and assault on SC women have increased by 37 per cent and 20 per cent, respectively, since 2015.11 Oct 2020.

In 2019, UP alone accounted for nearly 15 per cent of all registered crimes against women in India. With 59,853 registered cases, the state saw 164 such crimes, on average, every day. Despite an increased number of cases, Uttar Pradesh’s vast population – the largest of any other state – kept its crime rate against women relatively low, at 55.4 cases per 100,000 people.

The state has to its credit filing of highest number of sedition cases. People are scared of speaking their minds. Terror reigns UP. Obviously it does sound good when a person like Yogi tries to preach Hindus living in other states. He is on the mission to divide the Hindu society and put one section of the Hindus against other segment of the Hindus; incite the Hindus against the Muslims. Precisely he is on the mission to practice the divisive politics.

He also claimed that Durga Puja is prohibited in Bengal, cows are forcefully slaughtered during Eid and people’s sentiments are being toyed with. From what he says it is absolutely clear that he lives in the fools’ paradise. His party’s Bengali Hindu leaders should have briefed him that even in this worst time when the corona epidemic has been ravaging the state, the Bengalis celebrated Durga Puja with enthusiasm.

It is another thing that BJP leaders were denied of the opportunity to communalise the Durga puja. It is a well known fact that the BJP leadership has chalked out the nefarious design to communalise the Puja and unfortunately for the saffron brigade their design was opposed by a section of the BJP cadres and leaders. The design was prepared by the imported leaders those who do not know of the cultural and social ethos and implications of the Puja. Yogi must know that Durga Puja is Shakti Puja, the power of the women, precisely motherhood.

If Yogi has any respect for women and the motherhood, he would acted sternly in the Hathras case and ensured that the guilty should have been penalised. But it did not happen. He preferred to ignore the crime committed by the members of his own Rajput clan. In the Hathras incident the family of the victim belonging to the Valmiki community has shared how the Thakurs in their village still practice discrimination by telling them not to walk from a certain side of the road, or by throwing drain water in their homes. Such practices clearly fall within the definition of an atrocity under Section 3 and warrant legal action. But these failed to Yogi who claims to curb crime.

It is unfortunate that Yogi, who by virtue of being the chief of the religious matt of Gorakhpur in UP is the star campaigner of the BJP in Bengal is not aware of the implication of giving precedence to intoning Jai Ma Durga over chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' . Yogi was vilifying the Bengali society and its culture by saying raising of Jai Sri Ram slogan is not allowed in Bengal. People in fact chant Jai Siya Ram. The Jai Sri Ram is a political slogan which is why people in Bengal do not endorse it. It is shocking that a political slogan was being projected by Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi as the symbol of Hindu religious sentiments. (IPA Service)