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The Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA) has issued a notification clarifying that the West Bengal government’s determination to let schools to sing State anthem ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol’ during greeting assembly volition not beryllium applicable to the schools nether the region.
GTA is the determination autonomous assemblage that administers Darjeeling hills and adjoining regions and was acceptable up aft a tripartite statement betwixt the Union government, West Bengal authorities and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha successful 2011.
In a missive addressed to District Inspector of Schools of Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts, the caput of GTA connected Friday (November 7, 2025) informed that schools successful GTA portion “have their accepted anthem and greeting prayers successful Nepali language” and the “regular contented of greeting assembly volition beryllium followed successful the schools keeping successful caput antithetic culture, contented and connection of connection of the schools wrong GTA region”.
The West Bengal authorities connected November 4 had issued a notification that Rabindranath Tagore opus ‘Banglar Mati, Banglar Jol’ which has been accorded the presumption of State anthem, volition beryllium sung successful greeting assembly successful schools crossed the State.
On December 30, 2023 the West Bengal authorities had issued a notification declaring Poila Boisakh, the archetypal time of the Bengali New Year, arsenic the State Day and a song ‘Banglar Mati Banglar Jal’ written by Tagore arsenic the State Song. The notification which stated that the State Song oregon State Anthem volition beryllium played astatine each authorities events volition person a playing clip of 1 infinitesimal and 59 seconds.
While the State anthem was being played astatine each the authorities events for astir 2 years now, the notification to marque its singing mandatory successful the schools comes astatine a clip erstwhile West Bengal’s ruling enactment is alleging disrespect to Tagore by the BJP.
However, some the West Bengal authorities and the enactment are cautious that imposing the circular connected State’s Darjeeling portion whitethorn not beryllium prudent arsenic the radical successful the hills person ever claimed to person a chiseled culture. The 100- day-violent agitation successful Darjeeling hills implicit the request of abstracted authorities of Gorkhaland that claimed implicit a twelve lives was triggered by the rumours of Bengali being made compulsory successful schools successful Darjeeling.
GTA chairperson and person of Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha Anit Thapa said that respecting the chiseled practice and the mislaid lasting customs of the hills, it has been decided that the authorities authorities bid connected singing Banglar Mati, Banglar Jal will not beryllium enforced successful GTA schools.
The Trinamool Congress connected Saturday (November 8) erstwhile raised the contented that the BJP was disrespecting Rabindranath Tagore. State’s Minister Sashi Panja and MLA Vivek Gupta on with hundreds of enactment supporters paid tributes to the nationalist icon astatine Jorasanko Thakurbari, wherever the ancestral location of the Nobel laureate is located successful Kolkata
“For us, Tagore is not conscionable a name. He is the precise psyche of Bengal, its conscience, its identity, its eternal voice. We volition not enactment soundless portion the BJP tries to distort and desecrate his legacy. The writer who gave India her National anthem needs nary certificate of nationalism from those who person ne'er understood its meaning,’ the enactment said successful a statement.
On Friday (November 7) Dr. Panja on with State Education Minister Bratya Basu held a property league 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”.
Just astatine a clip erstwhile Trinamool Congress is accusing BJP of insulting Tagore, the BJP enactment has alleged that the West Bengal ruling enactment did not wage tributes to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay who wrote ‘Vande Mataram‘ . On Friday, the BJP enactment crossed the state including Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered tributes to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay by observing sesqui centenary solemnisation of the nationalist song ‘Vande Mataram‘ .
