Friday, November 15, 2024

Slammed by Trinamool, Moitra unfollows her own party on twitter

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra appears to have unfollowed her party’s official handle after a controversy over her comments on Goddess Kali at a media event, says NDTV. 

The Trinamool Congress had disowned and condemned her comments.

In a tweet, the Trinamool Congress said Mahua Moitra’s comments were her own and that the party did not endorse them at all.

Moitra later said her interpretation of the Goddess was twisted by trolls as her ‘support’ for a hugely controversial documentary poster featuring the Goddess.

The MP had said at an India Today conclave in Kolkata that she had every right as an individual to imagine Goddess Kali as a “meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess” as every person has the right to worship God in their own way.

“For me, Goddess Kali is a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess. And if you go to Tarapith (a major Shakti peeth in West Bengal’s Birbhum district), you will see sadhus smoking. That is the version of Kali people worship (there). I, within Hinduism, being a Kali worshipper, have the right to imagine Kali in that way; that is my freedom,” said Moitra.

“I have the freedom to do it (envision a meat-eating goddess) as much as you have the freedom to worship your god as vegetarian and white-clothed.”

The Trinamool Congress leader was responding to a question on the controversy over a poster tweeted by filmmaker Leena Manimekalai, which showed the Goddess smoking.

The BJP seized the viral comment and questioned whether insulting Hindu Gods was the official stand of West Bengal’s ruling party.

“Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should clarify. This is not the first time such instances have been reported. Earlier too Trinamool leaders have done the same. We think this is the official stand of the ruling TMC to hurt the sentiment of Hindus to get votes,” BJP leader Rathindra Bose said.

Ms Moitra still follows her party chief Mamata Banerjee but has apparently unfollowed only the party handle.

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