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Visva Bharati Plaque Row: Within the row over set up of plaques contained in the Visva Bharati College (VBU) campus to mark the UNESCO World heritage Web site standing to Santiniketan , the college has stated that the plaques had been only a momentary construction to demarcate the heritage website. The row erupted after plaques had been put in numerous components of the college campus, after the announcement of Santiniketan’s inclusion into the UNESCO World Heritage Web site listing.
The plaques bore the names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who’s ex-officio Chancellor of the college, and Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty, however they utterly miss out on mentioning Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore who arrange the varsity.
“UNESCO particularly stated they’re honouring Rabindranath Tagore and his distinctive legacy by declaring Santiniketan as a World Heritage Web site. A megalomaniac V-C and his boss appear to assume UNESCO is honouring them!!,” TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar was reported as saying by information company PTI, in response to the plaque row. Some left-leaning college students and activists have additionally objected to the transfer.
“It was a purely momentary construction raised to demarcate the heritage website. The ISI and UNESCO will present some textual content that can be erected as soon as they’re acquired,” Visva Bharati spokesperson Mahua Bandyopadhyay advised PTI. A senior trainer from the college was additional reported as saying that the plaques got here up throughout the varsity campus following UNESCO’s World Heritage website honour to Santiniketan on September 17.
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After the plaques got here up within the campus, the Visva Bharati College College Affiliation (VBUFA), a educating workers organisation of VBU despatched emails to the Prime Minister and Chancellor Narendra Modi, President Droupadi Murmu, who’s the Customer, and West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, terming it as an insult to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, by not mentioning him, and as an alternative mentioning different names on the plaques.
“That is to attract your form consideration to the truth that the Vice-Chancellor Bidyut Chakraborty has put up a number of plaques on the heritage website at Santiniketan on which it’s written ‘UNESCO Inscribed World Heritage Web site’ underneath which the title of Prime Minister Narendra Modi because the Chancellor and the title of Bidyut Chakraborty because the Vice-Chancellor has been talked about.
“… we’re shocked and shocked to see that there isn’t any point out of the title of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore who’s the founding father of Visva Bharati,” PTI reported the e-mail as saying, which was additionally despatched to Union Schooling Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and West Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose.
The e-mail additionally demanded the resignation of the college VC. Earlier, West Bengal BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya, stated, ““individuals like Jawhar Sircar are flagging such points on social media to cement their place within the occasion after being fielded as Rajya Sabha MP to unnecessarily stir controversy.”
(With inputs from PTI)
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