Language row: SFI sends ‘Barnaparichay', ‘Sahaj Path' to Malviya
CPM
, on Wednesday sent copies of 'Barnaparichay' and 'Sahaj Path' to Bengal BJP's co-in-charge in the state, Amit Malviya, following his comments on Bangla.
"There is an attempt to incite hatred against the Bengali speakers across India. Amit Malviya's argument defending the Delhi Police statement clearly shows that he does not have any idea of the culture and language in the state. Bengal has been a melting pot for people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. That is the identity of Bengal," said SFI's state secretary Debanjan Dey, adding, "We also asked him to read the basic textbooks written in Bangla.
" Malviya had posted on X: "There is, in fact, no language called 'Bengali' that neatly covers all these variants. 'Bengali' denotes ethnicity, not linguistic uniformity."
The SFI also criticised TMC for trying to gain political mileage. "This binary is being created to polarise the population in the state. If they fail to learn from this, we will send flight tickets to BJP netas and ask them to visit the Andaman Cellular Jail. Hundreds of revolutionaries from Bengal were tortured there while BJP's ideologue Savarkar escaped from there."
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