Underscoring the cultural ties between West Bengal and Bangladesh, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated she is blissful that the 45th International Kolkata Book Fair has Bangladesh as the theme united states on the 50th 12 months of its Liberation. Inaugurating the 45th version of the e book honest at the Central Park in Salt Lake, Banerjee said the ties between West Bengal and the sovereign country Bangladesh can’t be “measured with a tape”.
“You (Bangladesh) have Nazrul (Islam) and we have Rabindranath Tagore as our country wide poets. But they can’t be divided by way of any partition,” she said. Cautioning against any bid to create a division among humans alongside spiritual lines, Banerjee said none one dictate people’s choice of food, apparel or language.
“On both sides of the border, we take a look at the International Language day on February 21. We additionally utter Jai Bangla along with Jai Hind and Vande Mataram,” the chief minister said. She paid her tribute to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, considered the founding father of Bangladesh, and her appreciate to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed with whom she shares deep non-public ties.
Minister of Cultural Affairs of Bangladesh K M Khalid, who used to be present, also harped on the ties between Bangladesh and West Bengal and thanked the e book fair authorities for focusing on his united states of america on its 50 th year of Independence. Banerjee expressed happiness that the e book honest is being organised after a hole of one yr due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As the everlasting honest ground at Milan Mela had been below renovation, the Kolkata Book Fair will proceed to be held on the Central Park, she said.
“We will rename the Central Park venue as Boimela Prangan (Book honest ground),” she said. The International Kolkata Book Fair had been shifted from Milan Mela ground to the Central Park in 2018. The chief minister additionally advised the book honest authorities to take a pledge for world peace during the event as a tribute to the victims of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
