Folk singer Basudeb Das Baul may have wanted to regale Union home minister Amit Shah with a song on “amity and peace” before the lunch he hosted at home on Sunday, but could not.
There seemed to be just no time for the song Basudeb had planned,
Orey manus dekhbi jodi bhogoban (o human, if you want to see god), which talks of religious tolerance. Basudeb could just sing a welcome song in front of the home minister before being “prodded” for lunch.
Shah, who lunched on rice, dal, roti, potato and pointed gourd fritters,
alu-posto, among other simple vegetarian Bengal dishes, however, asked for a third roti after the first two.
Updated Dec 20, 2020 | 14:48 IST
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After yesterday s marathon political events and with handful of TMC MPs and MLAs in his kitty, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday will pay homage to Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal s Santiniketan.
To shed outsider tag, Shah visits Santiniketan, eats at artiste house
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Home Minister Amit Shah at Basudeb Das Baul’s house at Syambati village on Sunday. (PTI)
To reach out to Bengali intellectuals and shed the “outsider” tag, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spent over two hours at the Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in Santiniketan to pay homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Santiniketan, a neighbourhood of Bolpur, was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. Tagore had set up Visva-Bharati (now Visva-Bharati University) in 1921.
The organisations are believed to have great influence among Hindu voters in Bengal. The BJP has started PR campaigns across the state to woo these social and religious groups. It has formed committees to make a connect with these organisations in every district, working under the directions of BJP National Secretary Anupam Hazra. Hazra, a former Trinamool Congress MP from Bolpur, joined the BJP before the Lok Sabha elections but lost from Jadavpur seat on a BJP ticket. Party sources said that the visits of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to the birthplaces of intellectual leaders and BJP President J.P. Nadda s visit to offer prayers at temples and paying tributes to social reformers is a part of the party s strategy to connect with every section of society.