Kolkata, Dec 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday launched a scathing attack against the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, over the latter’s inadvertent reference to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Vande Mataram’s composer and legendary Bengali poet, as “Bankim Da” during his speech on the floor of the Parliament.

Although the Prime Minister immediately amended his words and said he would henceforth address Chattopadhyay as “Bankim Babu”, the Chief Minister continued with her attack against the Prime Minister on this issue while addressing an anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) rally at Cooch Behar on Tuesday.

“Referring to Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay as ‘Bankim-Da’ is never acceptable. It sounds like referring to any casual acquaintance like ‘Shyam-Da’ or ‘Hari

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