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Family members of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay connected Sunday (November 9, 2025) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enactment successful highlighting the neglect to the location of the writer, which was taken implicit by the West Bengal authorities astir 2 decades ago.
Sajal Chattopadhyay and Sumitra Chattopadhyay, 5th procreation descendants of the celebrated writer and novelist, joined State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya successful raising the neglect of the house.
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The State BJP president said that the location connected 5, Pratap Chatterjee Street successful Kolkata was taken implicit by the West Bengal authorities successful the Left Front regime, and successful 2006, the precocious Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee acceptable up a room successful the house. Later, successful 2014, a statue of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was acceptable up successful the compound of the location by section Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Partha Bose.
During the property conference, the BJP person played a video of the room wherever radical were seen occupying the space, and apparel were enactment up for drying implicit Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s statue.
Mr. Bhattacharya questioned the timing of the TMC authorities successful making the singing of Rabindranath Tagore’s opus ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol’ compulsory during greeting assembly successful State-run schools. The BJP person said that the determination came erstwhile the full state was paying tributes to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay connected 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram’.
On November 7, Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly Suvendu Adhikari led a procession to the location of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, and expressed his resentment that the location was closed and determination was nary garland connected the statue of the nationalist icon.
“Bengalis should ticker this. The Trinamool shouts Bengali... Bengali. Rishi Bankim Chandra is the psyche to the radical of Bengal,” Mr. Adhikari had said aft uncovering the gates of the premises closed. He besides accused Trinamool of disrespecting the arrogant lad of Bengal.
Sajal Chattopadhyay, 1 of the descendants of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, who joined the West Bengal BJP president astatine the property conference, said that the State medication undertook the restoration of the spot but the household members had not wholly handed implicit their rights to the property. He questioned wherefore the room was not being maintained decently and wherefore the State authorities was failing successful its responsibilities.
Sumitra Chattopadhyay, different descendent of the nationalist icon, urged the West Bengal government’s Department of Library to behaviour an probe into the “misuse of the property” taken implicit by the State government. Claiming that the solemnisation of 150 years of ‘Vande Mataram’ was not a governmental programme, helium said that the West Bengal authorities should person held a akin solemnisation to honour the writer.
While the BJP enactment is highlighting the neglect of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay by the State’s ruling party, the Trinamool Congress is alleging that the saffron enactment is disrespecting Rabindranath Tagore.
The Trinamool Congress enactment has precocious alleged that BJP MP Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri had made derogatory remarks against Rabindranath Tagore and adjacent held protests implicit the issue. The BJP MP had said that the country’s nationalist anthem, penned by Tagore, was written “to invited the British official”.
