BJP said that Amartya Sen is biased towards the ruling Trinamool Congress. Published: June 28, 2024 12:07 AM IST By Edited by Reacting to Nobel laureate Amartya Sen’s statement that the just concluded Lok Sabha election results showed India is not a “Hindu Rashtra”, the BJP on Thursday rejected Sen’s observation and said that the Nobel laureate should see things from “a neutral point of view” and that his statement had no connection with the “actual picture on the ground”. “Even if the NDA government does the best work in the world, Mr Amartya Sen will not appreciate that.
He should have judged the situation in the country before the party came to power, and the current situation after all these years,” said senior BJP leader and party’s former West Bengal president Rahul Sinha while talking to the news agency PTI. Sinha said that Amartya Sen is being biased towards the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. “He is making such remarks to please Mamata Banerjee (CM).
I wish he could see things from a neutral point of view. People of India have voted for the BJP for their efforts to cleanse the system, making it corruption-free and taking the economy to greater heights. Sen’s comments are not BJP’s headache,” he said.
Sen, 90, had on Wednesday evening said upon his return to Kolkata from the USA that “India is not a Hindu Rashtra only has been reflected in the election results” adding that keeping people behind bars “without trial”.
