Delhi Confidential: Tagore ‘Connection’
The party s West Bengal in-charge, Jitin Prasada, will be in the state for three days and his first stop will be a visit to the residence-turned-museum of Rabindranath Tagore. December 15, 2020 1:33:00 am
Jitin Prasada
The BJP is making an aggressive push in West Bengal and the ruling Trinamool Congress is leaving no stone unturned to defend its citadel. Amid the high-voltage political battle between the two parties, the Congress will this week start rolling out its rallies and begin an exercise at stock-taking. The party’s West Bengal in-charge, Jitin Prasada, will be in the state for three days and his first stop will be a visit to the residence-turned-museum of Rabindranath Tagore. Interestingly, Prasada has a Tagore connection. Hus great-grandfather, Jwala Prasada, who was an ICS officer, was the husband of the Nobel laureate’s niece Sudakshina Tagore. Sudakshina was the daughter of Tagore’s