In a delicate dig focused at Amit Shah, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday shared a submit on X congratulating the Union House Minister for his son Jay Shah’s appointment because the Chairman of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC). The submit has created a ripple on social media, not solely because the Trinamool Congress chief addressed it to the House Minister as a substitute of instantly congratulating Jay Shah for his appointment as ICC chief, but additionally as a result of she took a delicate jibe by saying that Amit Shah’s son, regardless of not being a politician, has turn into extra essential than any politician.
“Congratulations, Union House Minister!! Your son has not turn into a politician, however has turn into the ICC Chairman — a submit a lot way more essential than most politicians,” Chief Minister Banerjee wrote on X. “Your son has certainly turn into very very highly effective and I congratulate you on his most elevated achievement certainly! Kudos!!” she added.
Political observers really feel that from the language of the message, it’s troublesome to guage whether or not it was a congratulatory be aware or a delicate jibe on the House Minister.
On August 27, Jay Shah was elected unopposed as the following Unbiased Chair of the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) changing Greg Barclay. Shah, who has been serving because the Secretary of the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) since October 2019, and as Chair of the Asian Cricket Council since January 2021, will assume the celebrated function on December 1.
Banerjee’s submit is assuming significance because it got here at a time when the West Bengal authorities led by Banerjee is drawing flak from all corners, together with prime BJP leaders, for the ghastly rape and homicide of a junior physician on the state-run R.G. Kar Medical School and Hospital in Kolkata earlier this month.
On Thursday itself, a lawyer practising within the Supreme Court docket filed a criticism with Delhi Police towards Banerjee over her ‘provocative’ remarks whereby she reportedly warned that different states would possibly witness violence and unrest if makes an attempt had been made to create hassle in Bengal.
Addressing an occasion to mark the inspiration day of Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the scholars’ wing of Trinamool Congress, on Wednesday, Banerjee mentioned, “Modi babu, you are attempting to create unrest in Bengal by way of your individuals. However keep in mind, in case you burn Bengal, Assam, Northeast, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi will burn too.”
In response to advocate Vineet Jindal, the complainant, the Trinamool chief’s remarks had been inflammatory with the potential of inciting regional hatred and enmity, thus posing a menace to nationwide concord and public order as an entire.
