BJP, TMC in blame sport on Tagore’s beginning anniversary over theft of his Nobel medallion

By Express News Service

KOLKATA: The Nobel medallion theft that shook the nation 18 years in the past was dragged into West Bengal’s politics on Monday when the state celebrated the 161st beginning anniversary of the Bengali icon Rabindranath Tagore as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee lamented that the CBI’s failure to get well it’s a ‘large insult’ to the individuals of the state, whereas BJP chief Rahul Sinha linked the ruling celebration to the incident.

“The CBI couldn’t recover the stolen medallion because of non-cooperation from the state government. Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had assured that she would find Tagore’s Nobel if the CBI fails. Now it is her job to bring back Bengal’s pride. The TMC was involved in the theft,” Sinha mentioned on the event of the Nobel laureate’s beginning anniversary on the celebration headquarters in north Kolkata.

Shortly after Sinha’s allegation, the Bengal CM hit out on the CBI, which probed the theft, on the identical problem at an occasion organised by the state authorities. “This was the first Nobel that we had received and someone snatched it away from us. It pains me to think that the Nobel could not be traced even after so many years. This happened during the Left Front regime. I do not know if any evidence still exists. The failure on the part of CBI is a big insult to the people of Bengal,” Mamata mentioned in her deal with expressing her apprehension that the central company might need closed the probe by now.

TMC’s common secretary and spokesperson Kunal Ghosh rubbished Sinha’s allegation. “It is baseless. When the theft took place, the Left Front government was in Bengal. How can the TMC be linked with the incident?” he requested.