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The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enactment connected Friday (November 7, 2025) observed 150 years of the National Song ‘Vande Mataram’ written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay accusing the Trinamool Congress of not paying capable respect to the nationalist icon.
Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari led a procession to College Square successful northbound Kolkata wherever a statue of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay has been installed. The BJP person expressed his resentment that the gates of the parkland were 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,” the BJP person said aft uncovering the gates of the parkland closed.
The Nandigram MLA publically sang ‘Vande Mataram’ and said specified celebrations person been organised by the enactment successful implicit 1500 places successful West Bengal. The improvement came connected the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated a year-long commemoration of “Vande Mataram” to people 150 years of the nationalist song.
“TMC is not a patriotic party. Had it been a patriotic enactment it would not person issued a notification making opus by Tagore compulsory successful schools crossed the State. A notification should person been connected singing Vande Mataram,” Mr. Adhikari said. The BJP person was referring to a notification issued by West Bengal Board of Secondary Education making Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Banglar mati, Banglar jol’, the state’s authoritative song, mandatory astatine greeting assemblies successful government-aided and sponsored schools crossed the State.
During the State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya besides led a procession astatine Chinsurah successful Hooghly territory highlighting the value of Vande Mataram.
Trinamool Congress enactment besides held a property league connected Friday and alleged that a idiosyncratic holding law station successful Karnataka made derogatory remarks against Bengal and, particularly, against Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.
State’s Minister Sashi Panja was referring to a remark allegedly made by BJP MP Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri wherever helium said that the country’s nationalist anthem penned by Tagore was written “to invited the British official”.
“ The BJP has ne'er liked Rabindranath Tagore. There are 3 reasons for this: first, helium was not a Hindu oregon Brahmin but a Brahmo, which was aboriginal classified by the Supreme Court arsenic a portion of Hinduism. But the benignant of “Hindu” individuality the BJP seeks to enforce does not see Tagore,” West Bengal Educational Minister Bratya Basu said astatine the property conference.
The Minister, portion saying that BJP was a enactment of divisions, said that the enactment was trying to make part betwixt 2 large Bengalis—Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore.
Prior to this the determination of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to lodge an FIR against a Congress person who sang Bangladesh nationalist anthem penned by Tagore has besides created a contention successful the State. Members of the civilian nine including academicians similar Pabitra Sarkar had deed the streets singing “ Amar Sonar Bangla ( My Golden Bengal)’ which is besides the nationalist anthem of Bangladesh.
