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| The CM herself gave statements at a public gathering protesting such cartooning. |
Now Mamata's Trinamool caught into cartoon row
Once Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress had slapped charges of criminal offence against Jadavpur University's chemistry professor Ambikesh Mahapatr a for forwarding a mail containing pictures of the then railway minister Mukul Roy, his predecessor Dinesh Trivedi and the Trinamool supremo.
Now Didi's brigade has kicked off a hate campaign against Union Minister of State for Railways Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by derogatory cartoons that shows the senior Congress MP from Baharampore wearing a half pant and green T-shirt.
The campaign began ahead of Chowdhury's scheduled programme in North 24-Parganas' Kancrapara where he attended the 150th anniversary of a railway workshop on Monday.
The banners carry pictures of the junior railway minister wearing short pant and green shirt. It reads: "Ami school-er gondi na periyeo dayai rail mantri. Ki kore je chalabo, Hari-bol Balo-hari. (I haven't completed my school but still I have got the charge of railway ministry at the mercy of my party. I don't know how to run the ministry… Hari Bol, Balo Hari)."
Another banner also showed the cartoon of Chowdhury carrying a weight on his back and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him: "Rail-er file-er chaap beshi na criminal case-er chaap beshi. (Which one weightier - the pressure of having criminal charges against you or carrying files of the railways?)
Sources said the hateful campaign was launched by none other than Subhranshu Roy, son of former Rrailway Minister Mukul Roy and a local Trinamool MLA from Bijpur Assembly constituency.
Earlier, Jadavpur University professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was bashed up by Trinamool Congress activists and put behind the bars for forwarding a mail carrying excerpts from Satyajit Roy's famous Bengali film 'Sonal Kella' (Golden Fort).
Though the mail never carried any hate messages and had no malicious intensions. It was already doing round on a popular social networking site (Facebook).
The CM herself gave statements at a public gathering protesting such cartooning and threatened of dire consequence if anyone ever tries his hands in it.
Mahapatra and his neighbour Subrata Sengupta had been arrested In April this year from Kolkata's neighbouring Garia locality for spreading "anti-Mamata Banerjee" cartoons on the internet. The secretary of Mahapatra's Housing Society, Sengupta was arrested as Mahapatra had allegedly used the society's registered e-mail id to circulate the cartoon strip.
The cartoon was a caricature of Oscar-winning filmmaker Satyajit Ray's thriller "Sonar Kella". The caricature showed Mamata and her lieutenant Mukul Roy discussing how to get rid of party MP and former railways minister Dinesh Trivedi.
The content had been doing rounds on the internet after Banerjee had forced Trivedi to resign from his post after he presented the railway budget.
Sources said Mahapatra uploaded the cartoon on his Facebook account, besides sending it to 65 people via e-mail. The email content, carrying derogatory images of the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, was forwarded to many recipients mocking Trinamool government's policies with a caption that read: "Enjoy Sonar Kella for Sonar Bangla."
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