5 months ago
1
Even earlier the contention implicit Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks referring to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay arsenic Bankim da has died down, a caller enactment has erupted implicit different Bharatiya Janata Party person calling state combatant Matangini. Hazra, a Muslim.
Participating successful a statement successful the Parliament, BJP MP Dinesh Sharma had said that contempt being a Muslim, Matangini Hazra has raised the slogan of Vande Mataram. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) raised the contented and said that the BJP leaders cognize thing astir West Bengal.
“Yesterday, a BJP person said that Matangini Hazra was a Muslim. Do you [BJP] adjacent cognize Bengal?” Ms. Banerjee said. The Chief Minister claimed that from calling “Khudiram Bose a terrorist” the BJP leaders person called Raja Ram Mohan Roy is being called a ‘British agent.’
“Bankim Chandra Chattopadhay, who wrote Vande Mataram, is being called 'Bankim Da”. As if [BJP] shares beverage with him. Master Da Surya Sen is being called Master,” the Trinamool Congress chairperson said, referring to the Prime Minister’s remark wherever helium had called the writer of Vande Mataram “Bamkin da”.
Matangini Hazra, a 73- year-old pistillate from Purba Medinipur territory of West Bengal, had go a awesome of defiance against British regularisation erstwhile she led thousands of protestors and died with the Indian emblem successful her hands during the Quit India question successful September 1942.
The Trinamool Congress besides took to societal media and said that @BJP4India has yet “confessed what Bengal ever knew: they bash not cognize our history, they bash not respect our icons, and they surely cannot pronounce our martyrs’ names”.
Criticising Dinesh Sharma, who was Deputy Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Trinamool Congress said, “demonstrates that governmental fertile does not equate to knowledge”.
“Their MP, Dinesh Sharma, stood successful Parliament and butchered the sanction of Matangini Hazra, exposing the BJP’s chronic, deep-seated disconnect from Bengal successful a single, shameful moment. This is what happens erstwhile Bangla Birodhi Bohiragotos effort to enactment similar custodians of patriotism,” the Trinamool Congress said.
The improvement provided an accidental to the Trinamool Congress to telephone BJP leaders “Bohiragotos (outsiders)”, a word which the Trinamool has been utilizing against BJP since 2021. “Bohiragotos who cannot adjacent pronounce our martyrs’ names person nary close to lecture america connected patriotism,” the Trinamool said.
