Visva-Bharati VC writes to PM Modi to tighten his security
Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty has urged University Chancellor Prime Minister Narendra Modi to strengthen his security after a TMC leader allegedly threatened him.
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Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty has urged University Chancellor Prime Minister Narendra Modi to strengthen his security after a TMC leader allegedly threatened him.
In a letter written to PM Modi on Wednesday, Bidyut Chakraborty accused TMC district president Anubrata Mondal of threatening him with dire consequences after the West Bengal Assembly elections. He said he will teach me a lesson which I shall never forget in my life, Bidyut Chakraborty said. He also urged PM Modi to ensure his family s safety.
Amid the controversy over Nobel laureate Amartya Sen telephoning Visva Bharati Vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty and introducing himself as Bharat Ratna, the famed economist has denied having any conversation with the VC in recent times, according to a teachers association of the central university.
In a mail to Sudipta Bhattacharya, who is the president of the Visva Bharati Faculty Association, the Nobel laureate said the phone call that the varsity authorities claim was made by him is tantalisingly untrue and that he had spoken to Chakraborty a few years ago, not in June 2019 as was being said.
Visva Bharati authorities had in a recent statement claimed that Sen had called the VC from a number in India either on June 2 or 14 in 2019 and complained about the eviction of hawkers from near his Shantiniketan residence.
It is tantalisingly untrue, he says. The controversy over whether or not Nobel laureate Amartya Sen made a phone call to Visva-Bharati Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, requesting him not to evict hawkers from outside his ancestral home in Santiniketan, refuses to die down.
In a fresh email, sent to Visva Bharati University Faculty Association (VBUFA) president Sudipta Bhattacharyya and seen by
The Hindu, Professor Sen once again strongly dismissed the repeated claim made by Mr. Chakrabarty, that he had indeed received such a call from the celebrated economist.
The controversy began last month when Mr. Chakrabarty, during a virtual meeting with faculty members, claimed that he had received a call from Professor Sen, who had introduced himself as “Bharat Ratna Amartya Sen” and requested that hawkers outside his home not be removed because his daughter, who visited Santiniketan periodically, would be inconvenienced.
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