Kolkata, July 27 -- Rajya Sabha MP and West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Monday attacked the CPI(M) and Left-backed student protests, alleging that slogans such as "Kashmir Mange Azadi" and "Bharat Tere Tukde Honge" have no place in a democratic movement and warned parents to keep their children away from such campaigns.
He justified the BJP's huge rally today at Esplanade as a symbolic protest against the "subversive" politics of the Left parties.
Bhattacharya said the Constitution guarantees every citizen the democratic right to protest, but asserted that the right cannot be used to raise slogans questioning India's unity and integrity. "The Left has every democratic right to stand beside students. The Constitution has giv...