Once again undermining the unrest that has plagued West Bengal in all seven phases of polling, actor-turned-politician and TMC leader Moon Moon Sen on Sunday said the clashes during BJP chief Amit Shah’s roadshow was a “tiny bit of violence”.
“Things have been polarised for the last six years in Bengal and it wasn’t the Bengalis. There may have been a little bit of violence like in other states, but no one talks about the violence in the last five years in Uttar Pradesh…This is a tiny bit of violence,” Sen, who contested from Asansol, told NDTV when asked about the desecration incident at Vidyasagar College in north Kolkata last week.
The violence between the Trinamool Congress and BJP workers during Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata and the vandalisation of the bust of Vidyasagar led to an unprecedented curtailment of the election campaign in Bengal by 20 hours.
The vandalisation of Vidyasagar’s statue had become an emotive issue in Bengal, where the 19th-century social reformer is remembered for championing the cause of women’s education and remarriage of widows.
