A day after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Amartya Sen and criticized the BJP for “leveling unfounded accusations” against him, the BJP attacked the Nobel laureate on Saturday, saying he “should not take advice. of a failed boss. ” Minister”.
“We respect it. But it should not be seen as the mouthpiece of a group. You must not speak on behalf of either party. The people of Bengal will benefit from your intelligence and insight, but if you work on the advice of a failed prime minister, people will think otherwise. Will people think it was wrong to give him the award? Their ideology is that of the communists. It is the communists who have forced everything into politics. The communists brought politics even to educational institutions. The government blessed by him is spreading violence in the state, ”said BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh.
Previously, the Visva-Bharati University administration had alleged that a dozen of the university’s plots had been incorrectly registered and the list of unauthorized occupants included the Sen.
Meanwhile, a section of intellectuals is scheduled to hold a protest rally over the alleged harassment of Sen by the BJP. Actors, painters, poets and others will protest near the Calcutta Academy of Fine Arts on Sunday.
“Amartya Sen knows what he is doing. Such comments from the BJP are unacceptable. Sen is a world-renowned personality, “said the leader of TMC and Urban
Development Minister Firhad Hakim reacts to Ghosh’s comments.
On Friday, Chief Minister Banerjee said: “We all salute Senator Amartya. because you don’t lean towards the BJP ideology, they are bringing such charges against him. “
In her letter to Sen, she wrote: “We all know your family’s deep and organic ties to Santiniketan. His maternal grandfather, the revered scholar Kshitimohan Sen, was one of the first leading settlers in Santikinetan, while his father Ashutosh Sen, a prominent educator and public administrator, had his famous Pratichi house built in Santiniketan some eight decades ago. Hers has been a family woven into the culture and fabric of Santiniketan, inalienably … Some new invaders in Visva-Bharati have begun to raise astonishing and completely unfounded allegations against their family’s properties. This hurts me and I want to express my solidarity with you in your battles against the intolerance of the majority in this country, battles that have made you an enemy of these forces of lies ”.
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