Nehru sat on Tagore’s chair, not me: Amit Shah

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Home Minister Amit Shah has rejected in Lok Sabha the claim by Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury that he sat on Rabindranath Tagore’s chair during his visit to Visva Bharati. The minister said the record pertaining to this should be set right, as he produced documents to support his statement and sought Speaker Om Birla’s permission to lay them before the House.

“I have a letter from Visva Bharati’s Vice Chancellor where I have sought clarification from him and tell me after analysing the photos and videos whether I sat (on Tagore’s chair) there or not. “He has very clearly stated that nothing of this sort has happened. The reference to the place I sat is a window and anyone can sit there,” Shah said.

Shah said that “a former president of the country, (another former President) Pranab Mukherjee, (former Prime Minister) Rajiv Gandhi…and even I sat there (window)”. “And when Bangladesh’s prime minister paid a visit, she also sat at the same place and penned her comments,” Shah said.