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No place for Hindutva in Indian nationalism's growth in Bengal, says Saugata Roy

| @home | Jul 05, 2022, at 12:50 am

Kolkata/IBNS: Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy on Monday asserted that the Hindutva ideology has never found roots in Bengal.

Speaking at India Today Conclave East 2022, Saugata Roy stressed that “in the growth of Indian nationalism in Bengal, there is no place for Hindutva at all”.

TMC MP Saugata Roya and Kanchan Gupta, senior adviser, Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, were panelists during an India Today Conclave East 2022 session on “Cultural conundrum: Can Hindutva Nationalism coexist with sib-national cultural pride?”

While Saugata Roy claimed that wherever there is regional or cultural movement, Hindtuva will never find its root, Kanchan Gupta pointed out that the first concept of Bharat Mata emerged from Bengal itself.

“1905 is the time when the first concept of Bharat Mata emerged. And its Abanindranath Tagore who drew first pictorial representation of Bhatrat Mata. It came from Bengal, and not from a Hindi heartland,” Kanchan Gupta said.

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