Shah, Didi cross swords over Rabindra Sangeet

Kolkata/Purulia, March 29

BJP president Amit Shah and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee were today locked in a war of words over Rabindra Sangeet, a popular genre of Bangla music, while campaigning in the state.

Targeting the ruling Trinamool Congress over its five-year rule, Shah said only “bomb-making industry” had come up in Bengal during this period as a result of which Rabindra Sangeet was getting suppressed. “Only the bomb-making industry has come up in West Bengal in five years. And the sound of Rabindra Sangeet is being suppressed because of those blasts,” he said.

Banerjee retorted by saying she would be the “biggest enemy” of anyone who insulted Bengal. “Today you are in power in Delhi, but will lose tomorrow...I have heard that (Shah) has said something about Rabindranath. People of Bengal don’t forgive anyone who insults great poets like Rabindranath or Nazrul Islam.” — PTI