Mamata Banerjee’s slip of tongue streak continues; After Chandrayaan-3, now Mahabharata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee made a bizarre statement at the Foundation Day event of Trinamool Congress Party on Monday, August 28. She claimed that the Hindu epic Mahabharata was written by Kazi Nazrul Islam, a Bengali poet, writer, and a musician. 

Kazi Nazrul Islam popularly known as Nazrul and is revered as the national poet of Bangladesh. Notably, after the Chandrayaan-3 landing on the Moon, West Bengal Chief Minister stated that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 'went to the Moon’.

BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari lashed out at the Chief Minister saying, “Mamata Banerjee's distortion of historical events is a matter of public knowledge. It generally provides comic relief to the people. Nobody seems to be offended because everyone knows that the CM's general knowledge is really poor.”

Mamata Banerjee's distortion of historical events is a matter of public knowledge. It generally provides comic relief to the people.
Nobody seems to be offended because everyone knows that the CM's general knowledge is really poor.

But off late she has developed a tendency to… pic.twitter.com/XwWWl93hkG

— Suvendu Adhikari • শুভেন্দু অধিকারী (@SuvenduWB)

Suvendu Adhikari takes a swipe at Bengal CM

BJP leader and LoP in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari shared the video clip of CM Mamata of her gaffes and said, “Off late she has developed a tendency to distort facts related to the Hindu religion. On July 4, 2023, she remarked while giving a TV interview that, she or her govt has built holy temples such as Tarakeswar, Kalighat, Dakshineshwar and other Hindu pilgrimage sites.”

He also shared the video clip of Mamata Banerjee’s claim that Kazi Nazrul Islam penned the Mahabharata. “Yesterday, on August 28, while addressing a rally on Foundation Day, she said that the greatest epic Mahabharata was penned by Kazi Nazrul Islam. I think she very well knows that the great sage; Maharishi Ved Vyasa is the author of Mahabharata but she deliberately stated that Kazi Nazrul Islam is the author of Mahabharata. It seems she feels a twisted sense of contentment by distorting facts about our great religion.”

Mamata Banerjee’s recent gaffes on Chandrayaan-3

Mamata Banerjee, after the historic landing of the Chandrayaan-3 on the lunar surface, made a couple of blunders congratulating ISRO and the country on the achievement. The first gaffe was mixing up with the names of India’s first man to land on the Moon, Rakesh Sharma, with actor Hrithik Roshan's father Rakesh Roshan. Last week, while congratulating the ISRO on the Chandrayaan-3 mission, the TMC leader said India Gandhi asked ‘Rakesh Roshan’ how India looks from the Moon. However, it was Rakesh Sharma, then a pilot with the Indian Air Force (IAF), and not director-actor Rakesh Roshan.

In another slip of the tongue incident, she wrongly said, that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi 'went to the Moon'. “When Indira Gandhi reached the Moon, she asked Rakesh (Sharma) how Hindustan (India) looked from there. He replied ‘Sare jahaan se achcha’ (the best in the world),” she said.