The well-known slogan “Khela Hobe (Game On)”, coined with the aid of using West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to rally the Trinamool Congress cadre beforehand of the meeting polls in advance this year, is now getting used to selling sports activities withinside the country.
But the debate across the slogan continues, with the BJP criticising the Banerjee-led country authorities for saying 16 August as the ‘Khela Hobe Divas’ considering the fact that heaps of human beings in Kolkata had been killed on an equal day throughout riots in 1946.
In July, the West Bengal authorities had introduced that 16 August could be determined as ‘Khela Hobe Divas’ in a bid to honour the ones killed throughout a stampede in Kolkata’s Eden Garden in 1980.
A violent conflict had erupted among the supporters of the East Bengal Football Club and Mohun
Bagan Athletic Club on 16 August 1980, in which over a dozen spectators had been killed.
To commemorate the day, Manoj Tiwary, the Minister of State for Sports in West Bengal, stated the authorities have deliberate a programme to sell soccer and different sports activities and also will felicitate wearing icons.
“The authorities have additionally organised a pleasant soccer healthy among the Indian Football Team and the Bengal Football team,” Tiwary, a former India cricketer, advised ThePrint.
The decision, however, has irked BJP leaders withinside the country who says 16 August became the day declared as ‘Direct Action Day’ in 1946 with the aid of using the Muslim League led with the aid of using Muhammad Ali Jinnah and become accompanied with the aid of using communal riots.