PTI
| 11:12 PM, Dec 28, 2011
Kolkata, Dec 28 (PTI): The CPI(M) today criticised the West
Bengal government for
'unilaterally' changing the name of official
residence of late Marxist
patriarch Jyoti Basu and renaming it after
'universally respected' poet Kazi
Nazrul Islam. "We have no
objection to name it after Nazrul islam, a
universally respected poet
and song writer. But in this case the state
government should have
initiated consultations with our party," CPI(M)
West Bengal state
committee Secretary Biman Bose said here. He said this was
also a
very sensitive issue since Indira Gandhi was assasinated in 1984.
Chief
Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier in the day said the Indira
Bhavan would be
turned into a museum and a research centre
devoted to Nazrul Islam trashing the
previous Left Front
government's plan to convert it into a government guest
house. The
bungalow was named Indira Bhavan during the Congress Session in
1972
when the then prime minister stayed there during the duration
of the session. PTI
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