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  • Political squabbles erupt between BJP and TMC over choice to put in Netaji statue at India Gate

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    NEW DELHI: Political squabbles have erupted between the BJP and West Bengal’s ruling TMC over the set up of a statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on the India
    Gate in New Delhi.  

    An afternoon after welcoming the Centre’s choice to put in the statue of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose underneath a cover at India Gate, TMC leader Mamata Banerjee on Sunday requested the central govt to claim nationwide vacation on Netaji’s birthday.

    “We once more enchantment to the Central govt that Netaji’s birthday be declared a Nationwide Vacation to permit all the country to pay homage to the Nationwide chief and have fun #DeshNayakDibas in maximum befitting means”, she tweeted, including {that a} nationwide college – the Jai Hind College, was once deliberate to be opened in West Bengal by means of the state govt in honour of Netaji.

    Slamming the BJP–led govt within the Centre, Mamata mentioned the verdict to put in the Netaji’s statue was once taken beneath the TMC’s power.

    “The ones dividing the country will have to learn Netaji”, she mentioned an afternoon after her birthday celebration termed the centre’s choice geared toward diverting the folks’s protest erupted towards the rejection of West Bengal’s tableau on Netaji for the Republic Day parade.

    “The actual tribute would had been the Centre taking steps to get to the bottom of the thriller shrouding Netaji’s disappearance”, the TMC mentioned on Saturday.

    Amid all this, the employees of TMC and the BJP additionally reportedly clashed in Kolkata when BJP’s Arjun Singh went to pay homage and garland the bust of Netaji.

    TMC’s Sunday assault got here on an afternoon when High Minister Narendra Modi put in a hologram statue of Netaji at India Gate until a statue of granite is put in underneath a cover.

    In a method to counter the Centre’s choice to put in the Netaji statue, Mamata has introduced to arrange a separate Bengal Making plans Fee drawing inspiration from Netaji’s thought on Nationwide Making plans Fee.

    Slamming Mamata’s offensive, BJP’s nationwide spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia requested the TMC supremo to not play politics with the verdict to put in the state of Netaji. “Netaji belongs to everybody, no longer simply to Mamata Banerjee, so she will have to no longer talk within the language of politics”, he mentioned. BJP MP Dilip Ghosh additionally chatting with media mentioned that the BJP-led centre govt has bestowed honour by means of taking a call to put in a statue of Netaji at India Gate. He mentioned that the Central govt’s gesture expresses immense love for the courageous soul of our nation and the TMC will have to no longer play politics with such choice