Summary:
A year after a bust of 19th-century educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalised in Kolkata during a poll rally led by Amit Shah, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday raised the issue to target the Union home minister after he paid homage to Vidyasagar on his death anniversary.
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A year after a bust of 19th-century educationist and social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalised in Kolkata during a poll rally led by Amit Shah, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday raised the issue to target the Union home minister after he paid homage to Vidyasagar on his death anniversary.
“I bow to Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ji on his punyatithi.
A distinguished social reformer and one of the pillars of Bengal Renaissance, who played a major role towards women empowerment.
His relentless efforts eradicated many social evils and made Widows’ Remarriage Act possible,” Shah tweeted on Wednesday.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee took on Shah on Twitter.
“Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a great social reformer who still stands tall as an inspiration for secular, free-thinking society.
Ironic how @AmitShah ji had scant regard for Vidyasagar’s values when his men vandalised the latter’s bust.
Please drop this facade of petty tokenism!” tweeted Banerjee who heads the TMC’s youth wing.
He also quoted Shah’s tweet.
The TMC too targeted Shah in a tweet written in Bengali.