‘Do not Play Video games With Faith’: Mamata’s Message As BJP Targets Bengal Govt Amid Waqf Protests – News18

Final Up to date:April 14, 2025, 21:34 IST

Recent violence comes days after Murshidabad skilled violent protests over the Waqf (Modification) Act, leading to three deaths.

Amid the violence throughout anti-Waqf (Modification) Act protests in varied locations in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday urged calm and restraint, stating that everybody has the precise to peaceable demonstration however shouldn’t take the legislation into their very own fingers.

Whereas inaugurating a skywalk near the Kali temple at Kalighat in south Kolkata, she additionally requested individuals to not take pleasure in non-religious actions within the identify of faith.

“Everybody has the precise to protest peacefully, however irrespective of who you’re, don’t take the legislation into your personal fingers. Somebody will provoke you, however don’t get offended. One shouldn’t play video games with faith. Dharma means devotion, affection, humanity, peace, amity, tradition, concord, and unity. Loving human beings is likely one of the highest expressions of any faith. We’re born alone, and we die alone, so why the combat? Why the riots, struggle, or unrest?” she stated.

The TMC Supremo emphasised standing by everybody who faces assault or marginalisation, no matter their background or faith. 

“Keep in mind, one can win every thing if one loves individuals. But when we isolate ourselves, we gained’t be capable of win anybody. If somebody is attacked – whether or not they’re ignored, oppressed, disadvantaged, marginalised, or from any faith – we stand by everybody,” CM Banerjee stated.

BJP Targets 

Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) IT division in-charge Amit Malviya got here out all weapons blazing towards CM Mamata Banerjee and claimed that there are two sorts of Muslims in Bengal: these supporting Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) and people backing Congress, Communists, and the Indian Secular Entrance (ISF).

In response to Malviya, “Muslims aligned with Mamata Banerjee’s TMC are being given a free hand, these supporting different Muslim factions are being lathi-charged.” He advised this remedy isn’t in regards to the Waqf situation however quite about political allegiance.

“This isn’t in regards to the Waqf situation — it’s about blatant communal polarisation. Mamata Banerjee is each determined and harmful,” he wrote on X.

BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul has additionally slammed the TMC authorities in West Bengal, demanding the arrest of CM Banerjee. Paul alleged that Mamata took cash for 26,000 jobs.

“Mamata Banerjee is saying that she won’t implement the Waqf Modification Act within the state. How are you going to say this as Chief Minister? She ought to be arrested. She took cash for 26,000 jobs. Because the Chief Minister, she is liable for no matter is occurring within the state. Now, she is inciting riots, and he or she ought to be arrested,” Paul stated.

West Bengal Violence

Simply because the state of affairs in Murshidabad began rolling again in the direction of normalcy, in contemporary violence over the identical situation, supporters of the opposition Indian Secular Entrance clashed with the police at Bhangar within the South 24 Parganas district. The protest led to accidents to a number of individuals and the torching of a number of police automobiles.

The violence in Muslim-dominated Murshidabad’s Dhulian space, which erupted on Friday throughout protests over the amended Wakf legislation, claimed three lives and left a number of injured. Following the unrest, over 150 people had been arrested in reference to the violence. 

The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom ordered the deployment of central forces in Murshidabad and different areas of the state the place such protests had been happening in order that legislation and order could possibly be maintained.