Bengal Trip: Amit Shah visits Visva-Bharati in Shantiniketan, pays homage to Rabindranath Tagore

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday visited Visva-Bharati and paid homage to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan on the university campus. Shah is scheduled to visit the Upasana Griha (prayer house) and Sangeet Bhavan, where students of the university would render Rabindra Sangeet in a cultural programme, PTI reported.

Shah, who is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, paid floral tributes to Gurudev Tagore at Rabindra Bhavan on the university campus. Amid tight security, the home minister arrived here for more than an hour-and-a-half-long visit to the central university. He is also scheduled to hold a meeting with vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and members of the faculty.

Preparations are in full swing in Bolpur town in Birbhum district to welcome Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. Huge cutouts of Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP leaders Mukul Roy and others have been put in Bolpur-Santiniketan Road. In addition, where Shah will participate in a roadshow. In a bid to counter the BJP, posters of chief minister Mamata Banerjee highlighting her government’s achievements have also come up on the same road.

Didi will be left alone:

Sending out a warning to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Shah said the BJP will win more than 200 seats in next year’s state Assembly elections. Pointing out desertions from TMC, Shah took potshots at the party chief. Saying that CM Mamata Banerjee will be left alone in the party by the time elections arrive.

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Ending weeks of speculations, West Bengal political heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari along with nine MLAs of different parties and a TMC MP joined the BJP at Shah’s rally in Midnapore.

Birthplace of Swami Vivekananda

The Home Minister visited the birthplace of Swami Vivekananda in north Kolkata on Saturday morning. And said that the ideals of the 19th-century icon are more relevant in the present-day world.

He also visited the Siddheshwari Kali Mandir in Habibpur and paid floral tributes to the revolutionary Khudiram Bose. He is also scheduled to have lunch with a farmer’s family in Balichuri village along with BJP leaders. After the public meeting, he will return to Kolkata and hold meetings with BJP state leaders.

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