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Bengal BJP lawmaker seeks action over Katju's Tagore, Bose remarks
Kolkata, Sep 15
BJP legislator from West Bengal
Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday filed a police complaint against former
Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju for making "abusive remarks" against
Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore and revolutionary Netaji Subhas
Chandra Bose.
Katju, a former chairman of the Press Council of India, described Tagore as a "British stooge" and Bose as a "Japanese agent".
"I
am soon coming to Kolkata where I will give a speech with a scathing
attack on that British stooge Tagore and that Japanese agent Subhas
Chandra Bose in a talk in some university or institution.
"That
will be throwing a stone in a beehive, and send many Bengalis swarming
like hornets for my blood. But they must know the truth. For too long
they have been taken for a ride," Katju said on Monday on social
networking websites.
Bhattacharya, in his complaint filed at a
city police station, sought action against Katju saying the remarks
tantamount to communal hatred.
"Katju's comments are not only
abusive but ill intended and hate writings. His remarks are nothing but
communal hatred against the people of Bengal which is a criminal
offence," said Bhattacharya in the complaint.