After BJP workers, Gujarat seers to send Jai Shri Ram postcards to Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s response to the BJP’s sloganeering has prompted sadhus in Gujarat to join BJP workers in the state to send her postcards with ‘Jai Shri Ram’ written on them. 

“Mamata’s opposition to Jai Shri Ram slogan is hurting the sentiments of people, and devotees and saints are pained over this,” Akhileshwardas, a prominent sadhu in Ahmedabad, told ET. “We are starting the process of sending postcards to her from Ahmedabad and soon this will spread the state.” 

On Friday, the sadhus of Ahmedabad, along with Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal activists, held a programme in Ahmedabad to write postcards to Banerjee. 

The BJP had initiated the campaign of sending postcards with Jai Shri Ram written on them to Banerjee after accusing her, in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, of putting behind bars people who raised this slogan. 

“We don’t have any official campaign so far, but people are writing such postcards on their own from Gujarat as well,” said Rutvij Patel, president of Gujarat BJP Yuva Morcha. Patel, who had campaigned in West Bengal during the general election and was allegedly manhandled by Trinamool Congress workers, said that Banerjee’s reaction was a clear expression of frustration.