Mamata vows to be biggest enemy if anyone insults Bengal

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Last Updated : Mar 29 2016 | 5:02 PM IST
In a sharp retort to BJP chief Amit Shah's claim that the sound of Rabindra Sangeet was getting suppressed by bomb blasts, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today said she would be the biggest enemy of anyone who insulted Bengal.
"If anyone insults Bengal, there will be no bigger enemy than me," Banerjee said at a poll rally here in Purulia district.
"Today you are in power in Delhi but will lose tomorrow," the West Bengal Chief Minister said, adding, "I have heard that (Shah) has said something about Rabindranath".
"People of Bengal do not forgive anyone who insults great poets like Rabindranath Tagore or Nazrul Islam," the TMC supremo thundered at the rally for the coming Assembly poll in the state.
During a press meet in Kolkata earlier in the day, Shah said the only industry to have come up in West Bengal during TMC regime was bomb making industry.
"Only the bomb making industry has come up in West Bengal in the last five years. And the sound of Rabindra Sangeet is getting suppressed because of those bomb blasts," Shah said.
Banerjee claimed that the CPI(M) had suffered for allegedly disrespecting Tagore.
"CPI(M) had claimed that it had made Tagore famous, while taking 'Sahaj Path' (a beginners' book in Bengali for kids) off the syllabus of nursery students," Banerjee said, claiming that people of Bengal had paid back the Left party for such acts.
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First Published: Mar 29 2016 | 5:02 PM IST

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