Opinion | Why West Bengal Embraced Jai Shri Ram, Alleged Rallying Cry Of ‘Outsiders’

The slogan is now regularly heard during anti-TMC protests, Durga Puja celebrations, and even street-corner gatherings

This is a state that has Ram in the name of its most beloved patron saint, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa; where Ram mandirs and Ramrajatala are scattered across its sacred geography; and where Prabhu Sri Chaitanya chanted, “Hare Krishna Hare Hare, Hare Ram Hare Hare."

Still, in the same West Bengal, Leftists and the TMC had made Sri Ram an “outsider" so that the umbilical link between Hindu Bengalis and the rest of Bharat snapped. So that Hindu Bengalis remain like an island exposed to the whims and vagaries of the same Islamists who perpetrated genocide after genocide in this land and yet remain the most prized vote bank.

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