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Amit Shah attempts to connect with Bengal Home minister to visit places associated with Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Khudiram
Union home minister Amit Shah will visit places associated with Bengal’s three leading icons Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda and Khudiram Bose during his two-day visit to the state in a bid to establish the saffron camp’s connect with Bengali culture and tradition while countering the Trinamul Congress’s concerted effort to label the BJP as a party of “outsiders”.
“Amitji will visit the ancestral house of Swami Vivekananda in Calcutta and Khudiram Bose in Midnapore on December 19. On December 20, he will visit Rabindranath Tagore’s Visva-Bharati University in Bolpur’s Santiniketan,” a state BJP leader said.