A breasts of Vidyasagar ended up being vandalised at a Kolkata university throughout a Lok Sabha election rally led by then BJP president Amit Shah in might a year ago. The TMC together with BJP blamed one another for the event.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday paid tributes to Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a nineteenth century social reformer, on their bicentenary birth anniversary, and seized the event going to away at “certain outsiders” for vandalising a breasts of this polymath this past year.

“Remembering great reformer that is social educationist Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar on their 200th delivery anniversary. He had been a pioneer for Bangla language & drafted primer Barnaparichay. Also called ‘Dayar Sagar’, he fought for widow remarriage, banning son or daughter wedding & polygamy,” she tweeted.

“Vidyasagar certainly represents the pride of Bengal & functions as a motivation to us till date.

Their breasts had been regrettably desecrated in 2019 by particular outsiders, which just shows their disregard for Bengal’s legacy. Nonetheless, their teachings are profoundly inculcated within our values,” she said an additional tweet.

A breasts of Vidyasagar had been vandalised at a Kolkata university throughout a Lok Sabha election rally led by then BJP president Amit Shah in might a year ago. The TMC while the BJP blamed one another for the event. Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised to put in a grand statue of Vidyasagar during the same spot. The primary minister, nevertheless, took a march over him and revealed an innovative new breasts within per month of this event.

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar called Vidyasagar one of the best reformers of them all. “Today marks the 200th delivery anniversary of belated Sanskrit scholar, journalist, educationist, social reformer and philanthropist Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. He had been one of the biggest reformers of most times. Their efforts towards the upliftment & betterment regarding the society is immense,” he tweeted. Contacting Banerjee, he said need that is“we strengthen the democratic fabric” by after the ideals of Vidyasagar.

Created in 1820 at Birsingha town in Medinipur, Vidyasagar is well known for their social reform motions into the mid-19th century. He struggled to obtain emancipation of females making contributions that are significant simplify and modernise Bengali language.

TMC assistant basic and Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday stated individuals could not forget the desecration regarding the bust. “We won’t ever forget just just exactly how regarding the eve regarding the bi-centenary delivery anniversary festivities of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a governmental celebration, driven by religion-based politics, tore along the statue regarding the educationist and social reformer of Bengal by storming a college,” he said at a digital programme held by their division to mark the event.

He alleged that the “forces” which had desecrated the breasts proceeded to demolish the pride, history and tradition of Bengal.

“They would you like to erase the names of Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Madhusudan Dutt and Kazi Nazrul Islam through the History books. But could they hit from the names of

luminaries, can they generate us your investment rich share of Bengali culture in this manner? They can’t,” he said.

Chatterjee indicated their dismay that Bengali had not been within the a number of traditional languages meaningful hyperlink within the brand brand New Education Policy.

“Can you that is amazing? Can Tagore, whose two tracks would be the nationwide anthems of two countries, be ignored in this manner when it comes to generation that is next? Can they make unimportant the literary works of Sirshendu Mukherjee, Joy Goswami and Abul Basar?” he asked.

BJP frontrunner and MP Locket Chatterjee stated, “Vidyasagar fought for the freedom and empowerment of females. In western Bengal, ladies have neither safety nor freedom. We should form this type of national federal government in 2021 that may guarantee the protection to ladies.”

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