SaralnamaA lifelong Congress Seva Dal worker, 74-year-old Bidhu Bhushan Das is surprised and alarmed to find himself embroiled in a controversy after singing a line from Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic Amar Sonar Bangla — a song he says he has cherished since childhood. A of him humming the line “Amar Sonar Bangla, ami tomay bhalobasi (My golden Bengal, I love you)” at a Congress Seva Dal event in Assam’s Sribhumi district has been widely shared by the Assam BJP unit and state ministers, who slammed it as a rendition of the Bangladesh national anthem. The Seva Dal is the grassroots volunteer wing of the Congress. On Wednesday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa
Learnt Amar Sonar Bangla as a child! says bewildered 74 — Key details for
The Seva Dal is the grassroots volunteer wing of the Congress. On Wednesday, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said he had directed police to take action against the Sribhumi District Congress Committee. He accused the Congress of performing “the national anthem of Bangladesh in place of the national anthem of India,” calling it “disrespect to India” and “an endorsement of the claim of various Bangladeshi people that the Northeast is their part and parcel”.
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- A lifelong Congress Seva Dal worker, 74-year-old Bidhu Bhushan Das is surprised and alarmed to find himself embroiled in a controversy after singing a line from Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic Amar Sonar Bangla — a song he says he has cherished since childhood
- A of him humming the line “Amar Sonar Bangla, ami tomay bhalobasi (My golden Bengal, I love you)” at a Congress Seva Dal event in Assam’s Sribhumi district has been widely shared by the Assam BJP unit and state ministers, who slammed it as a rendition of the Bangladesh national anthem
- The Seva Dal is the grassroots volunteer wing of the Congress
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