‘Spent my whole life in the state, but never heard of Bengal Foundation Day’, says Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Foundation Day: West Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose celebrated the state’s foundation day on Tuesday (June 20) at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata. Regarding this, Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee and the Chief of Trinamool Congress (TMC) said that I have never heard about it.

Mamta Banerjee said, “I spent my whole life in West Bengal, but never heard about Foundation Day.” She said that even the Congress and the Left do not know about this day. Whichever political party is celebrating the foundation day. He has a political agenda behind this.

Mamta Banerjee told this purpose
TMC issued a press release and told that Mamta Banerjee has said that she condemns the celebration of Foundation Day because its purpose is only to humiliate Bengal and its people. Banerjee said that what kind of foundation day are you celebrating that even people do not know.

He said, “BJP feels that if it tries to persuade anything, then we will support it, then it is wrong. I had also written a letter to the Governor regarding this but he did not agree. The governor should not do politics.

What was written in the letter?
Mamata Banerjee wrote a letter to Governor Bose on Monday (June 19) night terming his decision to hold the state’s foundation day as unilateral and expressed surprise that ‘the state was not established on any particular day and at least on June 20. Who doesn’t? He wrote in the letter that during the partition of the country lakhs of people were separated from their roots and a large number of people died.

What did BJP say?
Leader of Opposition in the state assembly and BJP leader Shubhendu Adhikari criticized TMC for opposing the foundation day celebrations. He said that Mamta Banerjee does not want to celebrate the foundation day of the state because she feels that West Bengal is in some other country.

What is history?
According to the news agency PTI, on June 20, 1947, two meetings of different groups of legislators were held in the Bengal Legislative Assembly. One of these groups wanted to make West Bengal a part of India and a majority voted in support of the proposal in this regard. The legislators of the other group belonged to the regions that eventually became East Pakistan.

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A plebiscite was held for Sylhet district, which was included in Assam. About 2.5 million people were displaced from both sides and property worth crores of rupees was burnt in the post-Partition riots. The British Parliament had passed the Indian Independence Act on July 15, 1947 and there was no clarity regarding the boundaries of the two states being divided – Bengal and Punjab.

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