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By Anupam Mishra: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be on a daylong tour of West Bengal on Tuesday and will attend several events on Rabindra Jayanti.
The home minister’s visit, which is the second time in a month, is being seen as a face-off between the BJP and the ruling TMC over the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore. Amit Shah will visit Jorasanko, the ancestral village of Rabindranath Tagore, to pay his tributes. He is also likely to participate in a programme on Tagore there.
Meanwhile, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will also be observing Rabindra Jayanti in Kolkata.
Previously, in Dec 2020, the Trinamool Congress had locked horns with the BJP over the issue of the birthplace of Rabindranath Tagore. Mamata Banerjee had then appealed to “all lovers of Bengal’s civilization” to protest “a bigger lie” by BJP that Rabindranath Tagore had been born at Visva-Bharati.
Home Minister Amit Shah’s Bengal visit
Union Home Minister will land at Kolkata airport on Monday and spend the night in Kolkata. He will be visiting Jorasanko on Tuesday morning, where he will pay his tributes to Rabindranath Tagore. Afterwards, he will leave for the Petrapole border in North 24 Parganas.
He is scheduled to reach Petrapole Land Port at around 12 pm at Helipad ground in Kalyani Border Output Post (BOP). He is then scheduled to move to Petrapole Integrated Check Post (ICP) by road to lay the foundation stone of a link road to Bangladesh for smooth trading with the neighbouring country.
He will also inaugurate the new building of Petrapole police station along Jessore Road. He is also expected to lay the foundation stone of a Cargo gate of the Integrated Check Post (ICP) in Petrapole.
He will then return to Kolkata to attend a programme on Rabindra Jayanti in Science City, Kolkata.
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