Tension is once again brewing between the Centre and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal Government over the eviction notice to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen to vacate his house in Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan.
Visva-Bharati is the only Central University or centrally-funded
Visva-Bharati University has sent an eviction order to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen after it claimed that he is in possession of 1.38 acres of land on their Santiniketan campus.
During a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, Banerjee asked MSME Minister Chandranath Sinha, the local MLA, to lead the protest, which will be joined by Education Minister Bratya Basu and Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has asked her ministerial colleagues to stage a sit-in outside Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen's house in Santiniketan in protest of the Visva-Bharati university's eviction order, a senior West Bengal government official said