Union minister Amit Shah is on a day’s go to to Bengal.

Kolkata:

Union minister Amit Shah’s go to to Bengal on Rabindranath Tagore’s start anniversary because the Centrally-run Visva Bharati evicts one other Nobel laureate, Amartya Sen, grew to become the lead level of Trinamool Congress assault on the BJP at this time.

Mr Sen shares a particular hyperlink with Tagore, as does the University. While Visva Bharati grew from somewhat college Tagore established in Shantineketan, the poet had additionally bestowed the identify “Amartya” to the grandson of an in depth buddy.

“Amit Shah comes to pay tribute to Rabindranath but a Nobel laureate, who was named Amartya by Rabindranath Tagore is being served an eviction notice by Visva Bharati,”mentioned Bengal minister Shashi Panja on the state’s official programme to mark Tagore’s  start anniversary.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee additionally threw her weight in.

“Some people think Shantiniketan is Tagore’s birthplace. Some people’s rallies end up destroying a statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar,” she mentioned, in a jibe directed at BJP chief JP Nadda and Amit Shah.

Mr Shah is presently on a go to to Bengal and the primary merchandise on his itinerary at this time was a go to to Tagore’s ancestral home in Kolkata’s Jorasanko, the place he paid floral tributes to the poet.

“Earlier they were confused between the janmabhoomi (birthplace) and karmabhoomi (place of work) of Tagore. At least now they know he was born at Jorasanko,” Shashi Panja mentioned at this time in an arch reference to a fake pas by BJP chief JP Nadda.

A couple of years in the past, Mr Nadda had mistakenly talked about Santineketan — the place the Visva Bharati University stands at this time — because the poet’s birthplace. Today the Chief Minister hinted that the BJP leaders ought to know in regards to the state as a substitute of studying out misinformation “from a cheat sheet, or a teleprompter”.

Over the final week, the intelligentsia of the state, in addition to the ruling Trinamool Congress,  have vocally backed the Amartya Sen, who has been embroiled in a battle with the college over a number of months.

The college claims the land hooked up to Amartya Sen’s ancestral property, Pratichi  in Shantineketan,  is “illegally occupied”. The University has mentioned it might evict the economist if he did not vacate it throughout the deadline.

Last week, the Calcutta High Court put a freeze towards a transfer by Visva Bharati to remove a part of the property.