Illegal land: Nobel laureate Amartya Sen may move court over Visva-Bharati row
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Kolkata: Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Sunday said that he will move the court, if the need arises, to fend off the charge that he owns illegal land on Visva Bharati university campus. The central university has listed him as one of the illegal squatters on the campus.
Sen, whose entire family was close to another Nobel recipient and literary giant of Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, has said in a statement that the land he owns was given on a long-term lease that was nowhere close to expiry.
Mamata fury at ‘land encroach insult’ to Amartya Sen Purported list prepared by Visva-Bharati of alleged illegal occupants of Santiniketan land
A furious Mamata Banerjee on Thursday lambasted the BJP for their alleged disrespect to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, adding the economist to the list of Bengal icons that she accused the saffron ecosystem of insulting, and sought his forgiveness on their behalf.
In a news meet at state secretariat in the evening, the chief minister was asked if Sen had illegally occupied land in Santiniketan.
The question was in the context of a purported list prepared by Visva-Bharati a central varsity, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as its chancellor of alleged illegal occupants of its land, including Sen.
Mamata Banerjee squarely denied being invited by Visva-Bharati to Thursday’s event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the chancellor made a virtual address to mark the varsity’s centenary celebrations.
The chief minister attributed it to the BJP’s “hatred” for her to counter the saffron ecosystem’s claim that she insulted Rabindranath Tagore by giving the event a miss.
In a news meet on Thursday, Mamata was asked if she was invited and yet she chose not to attend it, which the BJP accused her of.
“When did they call? Whatever the BJP says, I have to pay heed to? I have an office. I do not know anything. Yesterday (Wednesday), he (vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty) sent an intimation, that when I go for a couple of days to Bolpur-Santiniketan next week, if I give him some time to meet. To that, I apologised and said I am unable to give him time.because there are many programmes lined up already,” she said. “This programme today (Thursday), they never invited
Mamata Banerjee skips Visva-Bharati event, takes to social media to mark its 100 years ANI | Updated: Dec 24, 2020 17:23 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 24 (ANI): Skipping the Visva-Bharati centenary celebration, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via videoconferencing on Thursday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee chose social media to convey her wishes.
Calling on to preserve the vision and philosophy of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee termed Visva-Bharati in Shantiniketan his greatest experiment to create ideal human beings. Visva Bharati University turns 100. This temple of learning was Rabindranath Tagore s greatest experiment on creating the ideal human being. We must preserve the vision and philosophy of this great visionary, she tweeted.
Amartya Sen on Visva-Bharati s illegal occupants of campus plots list
According to Vivsa-Bharati, the academic department, office, the girls hostel, as well as the Vice Chancellor s official bungalow have made it to the list of plots allocated to private parties
BusinessToday.In | December 24, 2020 | Updated 16:27 IST
Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal has written to its state government alleging that dozens of university s plots have been wrongly allocated to private entities. The university situated at Shantiniketan said in writing that the team preparing the list of unauthorised occupants include Amartya Sen.
According to Vivsa-Bharati, the academic department, office, the girls hostel, as well as the Vice Chancellor s official bungalow have made it to the list of plots allocated to private parties. The university attributes the transfer of land towards businesses like that of restaurants, schools, among others to the practise of wrong recordings in the government s