A maverick leader may be a political liability in an election season. The prime minister and his colleagues in the Bharatiya Janata Party they have their eyes fixed on the approaching assembly elections in Bengal seldom lose an opportunity to wax eloquent about Rabindranath Tagore, the state’s tallest icon. Unsurprisingly, the shadow has fallen, once again, between the BJP’s words and deeds. As if the embarrassing attribution of Visva-Bharati as Tagore’s birthplace in a tweet by the Bengal unit was not enough, Subramanian Swamy, the BJP’s proverbial
enfant terrible, has now demanded that the national anthem penned by the Poet be tweaked as some bits of it, in Mr Swamy’s opinion, no longer reflect the ground realities of post-Independence India. The mention of ‘Sindh’, now in Pakistan, in the anthem has got the BJP parliamentarian’s goat: Mr Swamy deems that the version sung by Subhas Chandra Bose and his comrades in the Indian National Army can be a suitable re
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