Mamata Banerjee hands over land documents to Amartya Sen
Amid allegations of land grabbing against Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen by Visva-Bharati in Santiniketan, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today handed him documents relating to his house there and said "no one can question him" in future.
Mamata visited Sen at his residence and dubbed the charge against him as "baseless".
"Allegations of land grabbing against him [Amartya Sen] are baseless. It is an attempt to malign his reputation. No one has the right to insult him. We won't tolerate it," Mamata said as the economist sat next to her, reports our New Delhi correspondent.
"I respect Visva Bharati but condemn the attempts being made to saffronise the hallowed institution," she said.
Visva Bharati, in a missive last week, asked Sen to immediately hand over parts of a land he was allegedly occupying in an "unauthorised manner" at Santiniketan.
Amartya Sen had in a recent interview to PTI suggested that Mamata has the ability to be India's Prime Minister but doubted her ability to muster support of other allied political forces.
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