BJP observes Vidyasagar’s 200th birth anniversary
Meanwhile, chief minister Mamata Banerjee and education minister Partha Chatterjee today paid their tributes and respect to Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar on his 200th birth anniversary.
Meanwhile, chief minister Mamata Banerjee and education minister Partha Chatterjee today paid their tributes and respect to Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar on his 200th birth anniversary.
One of the leading social reformers, polymath, linguist, Sanskrit scholar, architect of widow remarriage, Vidyasagar reconstructed Bengali language and script.
With the campus mayhem and the subsequent desecration of Vidaysagar bust on the campus during Amit Shah roadshow triggering a political slugfest between Trinamool and the BJP, Kolkata Police are taking no chances
Primarily known for his contribution towards creating a Bengali primer, the Borno Parichay, and for his sustained efforts at improving the status of the Hindu women, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was one of the greatest reformers from Bengal. Following the vandalism of Vidyasagar’s statue in Bengal, Sahapedia takes a look at the legacy of the Bengali thinker whose works are integral to Indian modernity
Teachers, students lodge protest against the destruction of Vidyasagar's bust; college authorities file complaint against BJP president Amit Shah and organisers of his roadshow for the vandalism on its premises
The camera placed above the glass box covering the Vidyasagar bust appeared broken and the wires disconnected; cameras outside the room not working either, say college authorities
Suffice it to register that the party president, Amit Shah, who was on a visit to the city during the wrap-up motions of the election, ought to have reined in his thoroughly unruly cadres as the grandstanding of the roadshow wound its way through the city.
A bust of the Bengali renaissance era icon was vandalised during the violence at BJP chief Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata on Tuesday evening.
The TMC has claimed that BJP workers from outside Bengal smashed a statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, a noted philosopher and a key figure of Bengal Renaissance, inside the college.
High-level inquiry ordered, more than 100 arrested; CM Mamata Banerjee has said a new statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar will soon replace the one allegedly vandalised by BJP supporters at Vidyasagar College
