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'Insulted' by Mamata, artist to quit
official panels
Thursday January 24, 2013 12:17:52 PM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Taking Mamata Banerjee's remarks against him as an affront, a leading painter
who stood by her side during her campaign to oust the erstwhile
Left Front government in West Bengal said he would quit two key
panels including the state Fine Arts Board of which he is the
chairman.
Days after Banerjee questioned his role in bringing a political
change in the state, Samir Aich said he would also put in his
papers as the member of a Kolkata Municipal Corporation expert
committee. The chief minister attacked the painter, who recently
criticised her government on several issues, at a public rally in
Canning in South 24 Parganas district earlier this week.
"Samir Aich had walked in a procession for us. I respect him for
that. But just because he walked in a procession, he does not
become a Trinamool Congress man. He was never in the Trinamool
Congress. So why does he claim himself to be a Trinamool man?
Please don't do it.
"I know why he is criticising us now. He is now talking at the
behest of the CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) which
spearheads the opposition Left Front)," Banerjee said.
Aich said Banerjee's comments "insulted" him.
"I don't want to respond to her comments and tell her how many
rallies I participated in to bring the political change. I don't
need a certificate from her, as I don't have any intention to seek
a job. Yes, I feel insulted. So I have decided to quit the two
committees," Aich said.
Aich had been one of the prominent faces among intellectuals to
support Banerjee's cause since she led the movements in Singur and
Nandigram opposing the then Left Front government's move to
acquire farmland for setting up industrial projects in 2006-2007.
He participated in her rallies and protests, and became one of the
most vocal critics of the Left Front regime in television debates.
However, he fell out with the Banerjee dispensation after he
participated in a candlelight vigil over the suicide of a muslim
social activist Aminul Islam, whom police allegedly framed in a
false case after he helped a raped minor girl lodge a complaint
against a local strongman.
Aich also slammed the government over an attack on CPI-M leader
and former minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah by Trinamool activists led
by former legislator Arabul Islam.
Aich is the latest among a number of intellectuals distancing
themselves from the Trinamool regime since it came to power in the
state in 2011.
Educationist Sunanda Sanyal, writers Tilottama Majumdar and
Suchitra Bhattacharya -- who had also backed Banerjee during the
final years of her fight in unseating the Left Front -- have also
been sharply critical of her administration.
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