Unhappy over not getting chance to speak in last meet, Mamata to skip PM’s conference on Friday

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday mentioned she wouldn’t be attending the assembly convened by the Centre on December 24 to debate methods to commemorate the beginning anniversary of thinker and revolutionary chief Rishi Aurobindo on August 15 subsequent 12 months, as a part of the seventy fifth Independence Day celebrations. Her choice got here a day after Banerjee was apparently not given an opportunity to talk throughout a digital assembly of chief ministers with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The CM, who was addressing a gathering of presidency officers, academicians and outstanding personalities, mentioned she would have given her inputs if allowed to talk on the assembly chaired by the PM on Independence Day celebrations.

“It is not proper to politicise all the things. I won’t be able to attend tomorrow’s assembly since we’ve got already charted out quite a lot of programmes on Rishi Aurobindo already. Please write a letter to tell that I will not be attending (the assembly),” she instructed Chief Secretary H Okay Dwivedi.

Earlier, eminent painter Jogen Choudhury, who was current on the assembly, protested towards the “remedy meted out to the chief minister, and mentioned it was an insult for Bengal which has made important contributions to the liberty motion”.

Poet Pleasure Goswami echoed related sentiments.

The CM additionally decried alleged makes an attempt to “distort” historical past at a number of ranges, stating that “the youthful era ought to get to know information, not twisted information”.

“No matter be one’s ideology, historical past can’t be subjected to adjustments to go well with his or her narrative,” Banerjee identified.

She mentioned {that a} separate chapter chronicling all vital occasions of our freedom battle needs to be integrated in class curriculum, additional asking schooling minister Bratya Basu to look into the matter.

The TMC boss said that programmes marking the beginning anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and the demise anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi can be held subsequent month.

She mentioned all data and details about the liberty battle in state archive, in police recordsdata and elsewhere can be digitised for public information. This might additionally embody dossiers about Netaji.

A weeklong programme will even be held in August to mark 75 years of Independence.

The CM requested the state officers to launch a challenge to earmark all locations of significance throughout the Independence battle and construct a tourism circuit, whereas giving assurance that “funding will not be an issue as we’re all indebted to the nice little children of India”.