"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.
"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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