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Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah yesterday performed the Bhoomi Pujan for the world’s largest curd manufacturing plant under the Amul Bengal Dairy Project at a ceremony held at the New Town Convention Centre in Kolkata.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, Speaker of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Shri Shankarbhai Chaudhary, West Bengal Minister of Cooperation Swapan Dasgupta, State Finance Minister Tapas Roy, Minister of Industry and Commerce Dr Kalyan Chakraborty, Minister of Food Processing and Horticulture Sharadwat Mukherjee, Chief Secretary of West Bengal Manoj Kumar Agrawal, Chairman of Amul Dairy Ashok Chaudhary, several dignitaries and representatives of the cooperative sector were present on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering, Shah said that following the victory in the Bengal Assembly elections, he had come on behalf of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi to sweeten the occasion for the people of Bengal with mishti doi.
He said that the change brought about by the people of Bengal was distinct from, and historic in comparison with, all Assembly elections held in the State since Independence.
Amit Shah said that West Bengal has been a State that inspired almost every sphere of national life. For several decades, West Bengal remained ahead of the rest of the country in education. Bengal also produced one great freedom fighter after another during the freedom struggle. In the spheres of faith, devotion and sankirtan, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Maharshi Aurobindo established an extraordinary tradition. When it came to patriotism and dedication, Bengal, through great freedom fighters such as Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Khudiram Bose, never hesitated to make the supreme sacrifice.
He said that it was in this Bengal that Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore earned global recognition, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose achieved major scientific breakthroughs, and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay gave a new direction to cultural nationalism by composing “Vande Mataram” in “Anandamath”.
Shah said that, unfortunately, Bengal remained influenced by a foreign ideology for a long period and, after emerging from it, became trapped in an ideological vacuum, corruption and crime. As a result, the dream of “Sonar Bangla” envisioned by Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore gradually faded.
