Despite championing communal, caste and class harmony all his life, Tagore in some of his early work did glorify Maratha, Sikh and Rajput valour against Mughals. These have become favourites of the Hindutva forces.
BJP Is Always Uncomfortable With Tagore â PM Modi Quoting His Poems Won t Reverse This
But Modi s wanton quoting of Tagore strikes as too much of an attempt to woo Bengalis in election season, considering the overall unfamiliarity with Tagore and his verses, displayed by BJP leaders.
Rabindranath Tagore. In the foreground is Narendra Modi. Photos: Wikimedia Commons and Twitter
Politics16/Dec/2020
Kolkata: On December 1, BJP Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging that some words of National Anthem be replaced by the version of the âJana Gana Manaâ composed by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Indian National Army.