Santiniketan Trust attracts PM Modi’s consideration to Visva Bharati VC’s ‘obnoxious’ remarks
Express News Service
KOLKATA: The Santiniketan Trust, a charitable physique based by Rabindranath Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, has written a letter to PM Narendra Modi requesting his intervention to restrain Visva Bharati University vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty from making “obnoxious and derogatory remarks” towards old-timers on the campus and alumni.
The letter to Modi, who’s the chancellor of Visva Bharati, reads: “We being the trustees of the stated Trust can’t enable him (Chakrabarty) to make use of the platform of Upasana Griha (prayer corridor) to insult and humiliate the Ashramiks (old-timers), alumni and native residents.
We attraction earlier than your authority to restrain Bidyut Chakrabarty from doing obnoxious actions and from throwing remarks in abusive language on this Upasana Griha.” The letter to Modi is claimed to be vital towards the backdrop of the controversy wherein Visva Bharati accused Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of occupying 13 decimal of lands at his ancestral dwelling with out authorisation which belonged to the central college.
The state authorities dismissed the varsity’s declare after inspecting land information. CM Mamata Banerjee met Sen at his residence and handed him over paperwork associated to the land. The letter, nonetheless, didn’t point out the row between Visva Bharati and Sen. In the letter to Modi, Anil Konar, honorary secretary of the belief, stated he was prompted to jot down the letter after round 200 individuals, together with old-timers, lecturers, college students, artisans and merchants of Santiniketan gave a mass petition expressing their anguish towards the VC.
KOLKATA: The Santiniketan Trust, a charitable physique based by Rabindranath Tagore’s father Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, has written a letter to PM Narendra Modi requesting his intervention to restrain Visva Bharati University vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty from making “obnoxious and derogatory remarks” towards old-timers on the campus and alumni.
The letter to Modi, who’s the chancellor of Visva Bharati, reads: “We being the trustees of the stated Trust can’t enable him (Chakrabarty) to make use of the platform of Upasana Griha (prayer corridor) to insult and humiliate the Ashramiks (old-timers), alumni and native residents.
We attraction earlier than your authority to restrain Bidyut Chakrabarty from doing obnoxious actions and from throwing remarks in abusive language on this Upasana Griha.” The letter to Modi is claimed to be vital towards the backdrop of the controversy wherein Visva Bharati accused Nobel laureate Amartya Sen of occupying 13 decimal of lands at his ancestral dwelling with out authorisation which belonged to the central college.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The state authorities dismissed the varsity’s declare after inspecting land information. CM Mamata Banerjee met Sen at his residence and handed him over paperwork associated to the land. The letter, nonetheless, didn’t point out the row between Visva Bharati and Sen. In the letter to Modi, Anil Konar, honorary secretary of the belief, stated he was prompted to jot down the letter after round 200 individuals, together with old-timers, lecturers, college students, artisans and merchants of Santiniketan gave a mass petition expressing their anguish towards the VC.
