Ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election, actress and Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saayoni Ghosh was heard singing praises for Kaaba and Medina to appease the party's Muslim vote bank.
The incident occurred on Saturday (4th April) during a public meeting. In a video that has now surfaced on social media, Ghosh could be heard singing, “Ekbar chede de nouka majhi jabo Medina (Rower, let the boat move. I will go to Medina.”
During the event, she further sang, “Amar hriday majhe Kaaba, nayane Medina (Kaaba is in my heart, Median is in my eyes.”
The lines are taken from the Bengali folk song ‘De De Pal Tule De‘. It’s evident why a Hindu TMC MP felt the need to praise the Kaaba and Medina ahead of the Vidhan Sabha election.
Hinduphibc tweet by Saayoni Ghosh and subsequent 'clarification'
On 18th February 2015, the actress tweeted a picture wherein a female character was seen putting a condom over the sacred Hindu symbol of a Shivling.
She wrote, "Gods couldn't have been more useful." Her tweet maligning Hindu culture was posted on the auspicious occasion of Maha Shivratri, which was observed on February 17 that year.
Screengrab of the tweet by Saayoni Ghosh
Saayoni Ghosh had subsequently issued an apology and alleged that her account had been hacked. The actress, who has been in the film industry since 2010, was mistaken into believing that netizens were naive to buy her argument when she claimed that the derogatory post was the handiwork of a hacker.
Labelling her own tweet as 'obnoxious', she informed, "Dear all, a post from 2015 has been brought to my notice which is extremely obnoxious..for all your information, I have joined Twitter on 2010 and after a brief use I lost interest in carrying forward. However, the account remained."
She claimed that her PR agent Bhaska Roy informed her that her account has been hacked. She alleged that the account couldn't be retrieved until 2017.
"After a while, my pr Bhaska Roy intimidated me that my account has been hacked and we need to retrieve it immediately. For various reasons, we could only do that after 2017 and I got back in touch with the Twitter world with a bang," the actress emphasised.