BJP Declares New Slogan To Accompany "Jai Shri Ram" To Win Over Bengal

The BJP on Monday said that it will continue campaigning in West Bengal with the slogans "Jai Shri Ram" and "Jai Maha Kali" until the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress is ousted from power.
"Our slogans in Bengal would be 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'Jai Maha Kali'. Bengal is the land of Maha Kali, and we need the goddess' blessings," Kailash Vijayvargiya, party general secretary and West Bengal in-charge, told reporters during his first visit to the eastern state after the BJP's stunning performance in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. The party won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, with the Trinamool Congress just barely ahead with 22.
Mr Vijayvargiya said that the BJP's work in Bengal will not be complete until it overthrows Mamata Banerjee. "I wonder why Mamata Banerjee always gets angry when people shout 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans. Is chanting it a crime? If so, why? We would like her government to explain," he said, adding that his party is against the Trinamool Congress' policies of "appeasement, terror tactics and oppression of opposition parties".

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