Mamata Banerjee condemns JNU attack, calls it 'shameful, fascist surgical strike'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee criticised attack on students by unkwn masked men in Jawaharlal Nehru University on Sunday evening. Chief Minister, while boarding a helicopter from Dumurjola Stium in Howrah on Monday called incident in JNU as a 'fascist surgical strike'.

"I started my career in student politics and today seeing students, teachers and officers getting attacked is very disturbing. Looks very shameful. This kind of an attack in a democracy looks very shameful. If anyone speaks up or protests, that person is termed to be a Pakistani. Pakistan is t a democracy, but we are. India is a democracy", said Trinamool Congress supremo.

Mamata Banerjee, who herself was a student leer associated with Youth Congress in Kolkata in early 1980s, has been supportive of student's protest movement against Citizenship Amendment Act and NRC all over country.

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'Fascist surgical strike'

While leaving for pious 'Ganga snan' event at Gangasagar Island in South 24 Parganas, she also levelled allegations on BJP for Sunday's incident.

She said, " goons have been sent by BJP and police were just standing. Police have become inactive. Police have been told t to do anything. Let BJP do whatever y want to, you keep watching. It is a fascist surgical strike"

CM Banerjee also stated that she has t seen such thing before and how such brutalities on students have risen in past couple of months. Her attack was on BJP government at Centre.

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"Everywhere we can see such things. In politics, someone will come, someone will go, but one has right to do such things just because y are in full majority. It's our duty to work as per Constitution," said Mamata Banerjee while appealing to all students to unite and fight against Government, which she termed fascist.

On Sunday itself, Mamata Banerjee h also taken to Twitter to criticise attack. 

"We strongly condemn brutality unleashed against students/teachers in JNU. words are eugh to describe such heius acts. A shame on our democracy. Trinamool delegation led by Dinesh Trivedi (SajdaAhmed, ManasBhunia, VivekGupta) heed to DEL to show solidarity with #ShaheenBagh #JNU", tweeted Chief Minister.

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