Jip report

“Do you know there were communal clashes in Gujarat in September? Are they not ashamed of Babri Masjid demolition and Gujarat riots? There are also reports of communal riots in Delhi. What this government is doing then,” she asks journos and people around.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the BJP with the help of CPM is trying to ‘instill communal feeling’ among the people in Bengal and creating the environment conducive for communal riot in the state.
Warning her party men about communal violence in the state, she warned, “Do not fall prey to the tactics of those who want to incite riots. Fire of riots will destroy everything. Inform local police stations and send a copy to the party HQ if you witness any untoward incident. I also belong to a Hindu family. My culture teaches me to respect all religions.”
Attacking the government at centre, she said that since the time the new government assumed office there had been several incidents of riots in several states including Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi.
Speaking on the Burdwan blast, she said that the Centre is misusing its power to incite communal violence. “The Central government is now misusing its power and now it is employing the CPM to destabilise the state,” she added in a meeting.
“There has not been any loss of public life in the blast. People who were making bombs were killed. Property was also not damaged. But the Centre is trying to shape it as the biggest terror plot. Why? They are now misusing their power to malign us. Blaming one community for the fault of one person is not right. Terrorists do not have any religion, caste or creed,” said mamata Banerjee.
“I love Bangladesh. That does not mean I support illegal infiltration. The state does not guard the borders. I have never said that I support infiltrators. Before election they came here and said that they would push back all people from Bangladesh. There are Indian citizens too and they are our people. why should i not protect them,” she asked.
Without naming any leader, she said that the political leaders are only using Facebook and Twitter to say ‘ Today I beat drums, today I played flute’ . She further added that these leaders are beating their own drums in the social media for publicity spending crores.
“I laugh at the tweets and Facebook messages of some political leaders. They tweet all the time and when do they work? For everything, they tweet. Today I played flute, tomorrow I would beat drum, today I meet him, tomorrow I would meet them,”Mamta Didi said.
Giving a clean chit to her party members in the multi-crore Saradha financial scam, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised fingersS at a section of “paid media” for trying to portray them as thieves. She also demanded a CBI investigation into the “financial benefits” received by some media houses for publishing advertisements of the chit fund companies and “glorifying the chit fund owners”.
“The central agencies are probing into the channels owned by Saradha, bought by Saradha and sold by Saradha. But today I am officially demanding an investigation into the financial benefits received by the media houses from the chit fund companies,” Mamata said.
She said soon after Saradha group went bust there were several “TV channels, which suddenly vanished”. “What happened to them? There is a law that says glorifying the chit fund companies and doing publicity for them is also a crime. There are some media houses which had carried jacket advertisements for the chit fund companies and had earned crores. This is also corruption. They should be booked too,” she said.
She said newspapers in west Bengal tried to dub “our party men as thieves” although no chit fund money was taken by the TMC. “I have no grudge against you, but do not tell lies. I have documents to prove everything. I know which journalist and editor accept freebies and from whom. Who gets things from shops for free. I know who gets free food delivered for rice ceremony and marriage anniversaries. But I am gentle enough not to disclose the names,” she added.
Her comments have come at a time when the CBI and ED have already questioned some partymen, including a state minister, in connection with the Saradh chit fund scam.
She said she had no objection to the two agencies investigating into the deals between artist Suvaprasanna and the Saradha Group. “There are several other deals between TV channels and some media houses. Those should also be investigated. Why did the Government of India allow chit funds to operate and not declare them illegal? Chit funds were operating in Bengal since the 80’s when the Left Front was in power. Why did the Centre issue media licenses to the chit funds? Where were the SEBI, RBI and other agencies at that time?”, she asked.
Referring to black money, Mamata without naming BJP wondered “how a party which spends crores of rupees during election campaign will be able to curb black money”.