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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs connected Tuesday (December 9, 2025) held a soundless protestation successful the Central Hall of Parliament to protestation the "insult" of Bengal icons Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee by the BJP.
The MPs sat successful soundlessness successful the Central Hall of Samvidhan Sadan, holding the portraits of Tagore and Chatterjee. Later, they stood astatine the gross of the Samvidhan Sadan.
The protestation came a time aft a treatment connected 150 years of "Vande Mataram" was held successful the Lok Sabha. The statement was initiated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Sagarika Ghose, lawman person of TMC successful the Rajya Sabha said, "Today, the members of Parliament of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, held a soundless protestation successful the Central Hall of Parliament.”
“We held this soundless protestation successful sorrow and successful outrage that yesterday (December 8) successful the statement connected Vande Mataram, the mode successful which nary different than the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, insulted Bengal's Sahitya Samrat Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay [and] insulted our large icon Rabindranath Tagore,” she said.
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“Attempts were made to defame, humiliate and to injure the radical of Bengal, the civilization of Bengal and the icons of Bengal," she alleged.
“Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay is simply a large fig of the Bengal Renaissance. He is the writer of ‘Anandamath’, from which "Vande Mataram" has been drawn, Ms. Ghose said.
"The mode successful which his sanction was mispronounced, his bequest distorted, the mode successful which Rabindranath Tagore, the writer of our nationalist anthem, his relation was distorted and insulted, it is simply a unspeakable stroke to the radical of Bengal from nary different than the Prime Minister of India and the BJP," Ms. Ghose said.
"We request that the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, apologise to the radical of Bengal for this insult to our taste icons," she said.
During the statement connected "Vande Mataram" successful the Lok Sabha connected Monday (December 8), the TMC accused Mr. Modi of insulting Chatterjee by referring to him arsenic "Bankim Da". Senior TMC MP Saugata Roy said the PM should notation to him arsenic "Bankim Babu" instead.
Mr. Modi instantly accepted the sentiment, saying, "I volition accidental Bankim Babu. Thank you, I respect your sentiments." In a lighter vein PM Modi asked whether helium could inactive code Mr. Roy arsenic "dada".
