No one should try to play with Bengali language: Mamata
Kamarpukur (WB), Aug 5 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language.
She also asked whether there can be an India without West Bengal.
Banerjee pointed to Bengali litterateurs Rabindranath Tagore, who wrote the national anthem, and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, who penned the national song of India.
'Nobody should try to play with our language or insult it," she said, asking, 'Can there be Bharat without Bangla?" Pointing to the teachings of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, she said that he taught all to live in harmony.
'I believe in Ramakrishna Paramahansa's teaching of harmony of all religions," Banerjee said, after laying the foundation stone of a guest house of Ramakrishna Math and Mission at Kamarpukur in Hooghly district.
'There is no division among us, we have learnt from Ramakrishna Paramahansa to live together with everyone," she said.
Stating that Swami Vivekananda had taught that 'unity is strength', Banerjee said that his mother tongue was Bengali language, just as it was of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose or Raja Rammohan Roy.
'Dharma is to treat other religions with love and respect," she said.
'Likewise, mother is called by different names, but she is the same," she said, before embarking on a visit to flood-hit Ghatal in Paschim Medinipur district.
Banerjee also declared the formation of Jairambati-Kamarpukur Development Board, with Swami Lokottarananda, the secretary of the Ramakrishna Math, Kamarpukur, as its chairman. PTI AMR ACD
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