Tripura Guv targets Ghulam Ali, stokes controversy
BY M Post Bureau13 Jan 2016 6:05 AM IST
M Post Bureau13 Jan 2016 6:05 AM IST
In remarks that could stoke another controversy involving him, Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy on Tuesday targeted Pakistani ghazal maestro Ghulam Ali, who is in Kolkata for a concert, saying no people on earth have suffered at Pakistan’s hands as much as Bengali Hindus.
“Paki singer GhulamAli in Kolkata. No ppl on earth hv sufferd at Paki hands as mch as Bengali Hindus. Bengalis forget, said Haraprasad Shastri(a noted Bengali linguist),”Roy tweeted.
“On 12 February 1950 all trains crossing the Meghna Bridge at Ashugonj (now Bangladesh) wr stopped, all Hindus stabbed and thrown into river,” Roy said in another tweet.
Organised by the West Bengal Minority Affairs and Madrasah Education Department, whose minister in-charge is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the singer performed at the inaugural function of a trade fair organized for small and medium enterprises. Banerjee is also attending the concert at Netaji Indoor stadium.
The Kolkata concert is 75-year-old Ghulam Ali’s first show in India since the Shiv Sena forced the cancellation of his event in Mumbai in October last.
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