Mahesh Bhatt slams destruction of Vidyasagar's statue

Vidyasagar’s statue was damaged when clashes broke out between Trinamool Congress students' union members and BJP supporters during Amit Shah's road show in Kolkata

Mumbai: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Wednesday condemned the destruction of Bengali polymath Vidyasagar's bust during BJP President Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata. Bhatt tweeted: "To attack Pandit Vidyasagar is to attack Bangla language. To begin with, he simplified Bangla for studying through Borno Porichoy."

To attack Pandit Vidya Sagar is to attack Bangla language. To begin with he simplified Bangla for studying through Borno Porichoy @derekobrienmp

— Mahesh Bhatt (@MaheshNBhatt) May 15, 2019

Lok Sabha elections 2019 ‘BJP goons’ damaged Vidyasagar’s statue during Amit Shah roadshiw, will submit video proof to EC TMC Clashes broke out between members of the Trinamool Congress students' union and BJP supporters who participated in Shah's massive road show in north Kolkata on Tuesday evening, following which a group of saffron party activists allegedly resorted to vandalism inside the Vidyasagar College campus and destroyed a bust of Vidyasagar.

This is what TMC & BJP doing with our Bengal. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar 's statue vandalised ...#Vidyasagar #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/OwTHeLR9B6

— Amartya Das #Vote4Left (@Amartya_13) May 14, 2019

Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a key figure of the Bengal Renaissance. He was a philosopher, academic educator, writer, translator, printer, publisher, entrepreneur, reformer and philanthropist.