Parliament proceedings | Did not sit on Tagore’s chair, says Amit Shah
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Home Minister counters Congress MP’s allegations in Lok Sabha.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah tabled a clarification in Lok Sabha on Tuesday that he did not in truth occupy the chair put aside as Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore’s on the museum devoted to the latter at Vishwa Bharati University as alleged by Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary throughout his speech within the House on Monday.
Mr. Shah produced a letter from Vishwa Bharati vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, addressed to Mr. Chowdhary, clarifying that the Union Home Minister on his go to to the college had, in truth, occupied a makeshift seating association to signal the guests ebook in Uttarayan, the museum devoted to the Nobel laureate and founding father of Shantiniketan, Rabindranath Tagore.
Used by presidents
The chair, in line with Mr. Chakrabarty, has been utilized by former Presidents Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee once they visited Vishwa Bharati and it was no totally different for Mr. Shah. The vice-chancellor additionally invited Mr. Chowdhary to Vishwa Bharati to “verify the same in person”.
In his speech, whereas making a bigger level of BJP leaders not respecting nationwide leaders of the previous, Mr. Chowdhary had acknowledged that Mr. Shah had occupied Gurudev Tagore’s seat.
Shows pictures
“Certain allegations were made against me which are factually untrue and I want to table the clarification before the House so that the record may reflect it,” stated Mr. Shah. He additionally produced pictures of former presidents Patil and Mukherjee occupying the identical seat.
In reality, stated Mr. Shah, there have been footage that confirmed that it was former prime minister ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Rajiv Gandhi who could have occupied Gurudev Tagore’s unique chair and produced pictures displaying the identical.
Monday’s debate on the movement of due to the President for his handle to each Houses of Parliament noticed a surfeit of references to West Bengal and leaders like Tagore, Subhash Chandra Bose and Shyama Prasad Mukherjee because the BJP, the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the Left invoked historical past forward of the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls.
