Narendra Modi s master stroke to earn Bengali voters is Netaji anandabazar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from anandabazar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
No politics please. That is what the people of the millennium Cuttack city seem to be telling political parties trying to claim the legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
The resentment is mounting following the BJP’s bid to steal the show during a programme at the Victoria Memorial where hostile vibes between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee were visible to all.
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“Why the Prime Minister did not organise the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji here at Cuttack where he was born? I still remember the words of my father who used to tell us about little Subhas Chandra playing in our backyard, his days in the Ravenshaw Collegiate School. It would have been a fitting tribute to the martyr had his birth anniversary been organised here and not in Bengal,” said senior advocate of the Odisha High Court Suryakanta Sanganeria.
Arambam has the look of a bodybuilder but he treads cautiously on a construction site strewn with war munitions. If he puts a foot wrong, chances are that he could damage or crush the old ammunition.
A former civil engineer, he has worked in the past in supervisory roles at construction sites. Since 2013, when he turned into a full-time history buff and tour guide, he has climbed up and down difficult terrains in the hills, where the British army and the Japanese fought the devastating Battle of Imphal and Kohima in 1944. Over 50,000 Japanese died or went missing in the combat. The British army that included Manipuris suffered over 16,000 casualties. Pressing Arambam for exact numbers can, however, be a sore point.
West Bengal Trinamool Primary Teachers Association s protest after alleged insulting incident faced by Mamata Banerjee in Victoria Memorial anandabazar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from anandabazar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.