Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy on Sunday criticised Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen for his comments on \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sen had on Friday said at a programme in Kolkata that \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d chant is not part of the traditional Bengali culture and is a \u201crecent import\u201d which is being used to \u201cbeat up people\u201d and to \u201cwage a war\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cHasn\u2019t he (Amartya Sen) heard of Ramrajatala and Serampore? But of course, that may not be possible as he stays abroad most of the time,\u201d Roy tweeted.<\/p>\n
He also said that Sen had won the Nobel Prize for economics and should stick to his subject. \u201cDon\u2019t we say \u2018Ram-Ram when we are scared of ghosts?\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
Roy also tweeted that no one had heard \u201cInquilab Zindabaad\u201d before the 1930s, no one had heard \u201cYeh Azaadi Jhoota Hai\u201d prior to 1947. \u201cThere are many more of such phrases. One must accept the new, else one becomes a laughing stock,\u201d Roy tweeted.<\/p>\n
During a session in Kolkata\u2019s Jadavpur University, Sen had said that he had come to know that Ram Navami is celebrated a lot in Bengal these days, but that never happened in the past. He explained that the way Durga Puja was celebrated in the state could not be compared with Ram Navami. \u201cThese are recent imports to wage a war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Some incidents have been reported from different parts of West Bengal where Muslims were asked to chant \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d and beaten up, and Sen was possibly referring to those incidents when he had made the comment.<\/p>\n
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been consistently using the phrase in the state to wage a political war against Trinamool Congress and its chief Mamata Banerjee.<\/p>\n
Prior to the elections, Banerjee stopped her car in Midnapore during an election campaign where people stood along the road chanting \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d. She came out of the car and the people chanting the slogan fled, and her words \u2013 unclear from the video \u2013 was used by the BJP to say that she had said \u201cJai Shree Ram\u201d was an abuse.<\/p>\n
Since then, there have been several occasions when Mamata Banerjee and her party members have encountered the slogan during their visits to different places in the state. Banerjee has planned to counter the slogan with \u201cJai Hind\u201d and \u201cJai Bangla\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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