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SRK Has Been Victimised: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee In Mumbai

Mamata Banerjee, who is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra, said there is already bridge between Bengal and Maharashtra

Mumbai: Attacking the Bharatiya Janta Party on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee alleged that celebrities like Mahesh Bhatt and Shah Ruk Khan are being victimized and we are facing cruel undemocratic BJP.

“We are facing a cruel undemocratic party the BJP. If we are together, we will win,” NDTV quoted Banerjee as saying in a meet held in Mumbai.

“Mahesh ji (film director Mahesh Bhatt), you have been victimised, Shah Rukh Khan has also been victimised. If we have to win, we have to fight and speak out wherever we can. You guide us and give us advice as a political party,” she added.

Underlining the need for unity, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo said “India loves manpower not muscle power”.

She also recited a poem by Bengal’s iconic poet Rabindranath Tagore on Maratha king Shivaji, adding that there is already a “bridge” between Bengal and Maharashtra.

Mamata Banerjee is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra. The meet in Mumbai was attended by former Congress leader Sanjay Jha, Sudheendra Kulkarni and Shatrughan Sinha, former High Court judges Shafi Parkar and Abhay Thipse, activists Teesta Setalvad and Medha Patkar, author Shobha De and several Bollywood celebrities including Rahul Bose and Konkona Sen Sharma.

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