Did not Sit down On Rabindranath Tagore’s Seat, Says Amit Shah, Displays Footage In Area
Amit Shah mentioned actually, Congress leaders had accomplished what he was once being accused of.
New Delhi:
House Minister Amit Shah these days denied a Congress chief’s price that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore’s seat right through a consult with final month to Santiniketan in West Bengal.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the chief of the Congress within the Lok Sabha, had, whilst talking in the home, accused Mr Shah of sitting on Tagore’s seat and disrespecting the icon when he was once on the Visva Bharti College on January 20. No longer proper, the House Minister retorted, announcing he had showed it with the Vice Chancellor of the college arrange via Tagore.
“Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned right through his speech the previous day that I sat on Rabindranath Tagore’s seat right through my consult with to Santiniketan. I’ve a letter from the Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharti the place he clarified that no such incident took place, I sat close to a window the place someone can take a seat,” the House Minister mentioned.
Mr Shah mentioned actually, Congress leaders had accomplished what he was once being accused of.
“Former presidents Pratibha Patil, Pranab Mukherjee and overdue Top Minister Rajiv Gandhi sat at that very same spot. I did not take a seat on Tagore’s seat however there are two footage which display Pandit Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi sitting on Tagore’s seat,” he mentioned.
Rajiv Gandhi had tea on his settee, he added, generating the footage in the home.
The Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharti, Bidyut Chakraborty, additionally wrote to Mr Chowdhury on his allegation in opposition to Mr Shah announcing he were “misinformed as that is patently unfaithful”
Mr Shah sat on a makeshift seat, which was once “the threshold of a window on which cushions are positioned”, he wrote. So it was once no longer a chair and had by no means been Tagore’s seat in any respect, mentioned the Vice Chancellor, inviting the Congress MP to ensure the reality for himself.
That is the newest within the sour battle for Bengal’s icons and legacies within the lead-up to meeting elections due via Might. Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has accused challenger BJP of looking to suitable legends like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Tagore for votes in its competitive marketing campaign for Bengal.
In Parliament, Mr Chowdhury and Trinamool Congress chief Saugata Roy even commented on Top Minister Narendra Modi’s beard and accused him of looking to appear to be Tagore “with out working out Bengal”.
