As per the Bengali Calendar, ‘Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti’ is observed on the 25th day of the Bengali month of Baishakh, and this day is being celebrated today, May 9. This even as Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stopping short of naming Shah, reminded how the first Nobel Laureate of the continent - unlike the saffron brigade - never preached the idea of ‘division’. While in an apparent move to further the cause of the New Education Policy Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said so painstakingly introduced and carried forward by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi the philosophical crux NEP was actually what Tagore professed. In what the pundits saw as an attempt by rival outfits to “exploit” the birth anniversary of Poet Laureate Rabindranath Tagore to further their pre-poll political agenda both the BJP and the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday claimed how only they were the true followers of Tagorean philosophy.
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