West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen voicing support for him after reports emerged tha...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday wrote to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen voicing support for him after reports emerged that the Visva Bharati University has mentioned him in a list of people with unauthorised plots of land within its premises, reported NDTV.
“Some nouveau invaders in Visva Bharati have started raising surprising and baseless allegations about your familial properties,” she wrote. “This pains me, and I want to express my solidarity with you in your battles against bigotry of majoritarians in this country, the battles that have made you an enemy of these forces of untruth.”
The letter came after the university reportedly wrote to the West Bengal government, detailing about a number of plots that have been wrongly recorded in favour of private parties. The list includes the name of Sen as his house, Pratichi, occupies around 138 decimals of land while the original lease was given on 125 decimals, The Telegraph reported.
In her letter, Banerjee noted that Sen’s family has had a rich history linked to the university.
“Your maternal grandfather, the revered scholar Kshitimohan Sen, was one of the early leading settlers in Santiniketan, while your father Ashutosh Sen, a noted educationist and public administrator, had his famed house Pratichi built in Santiniketan eight decades...
