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| Harvard Professor From Mamata's Party Impresses With First Parliament Speech
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| INDIA
, 11-June-2014
12:54:26 PM |
| Trinamool Congress member Sugata Bose today drew encomiums from almost the entire Lok Sabha for an eloquent maiden speech and Congress President Sonia Gandhi walked up to him to congratulate.
The Harvard Professor of History, who represents Jadavpore constituency of West Bengal, also drew praise from his arch rivals - CPI(M)'s Mohd Salim as well as state Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury - as well as MPs of other parties including the treasury benches.
Referring to the federal structure of the country's democratic polity, Bose, a kin of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, said the federal spirit has been "sadly diluted" in recent years.
"The legendary king Bharata - after whom our country Bharatbarsha is named, had been described in the ancient texts as 'Rajchakrabarti'. He took pains to explain the term did not mean emperor but "simply a king at the centre of a circle of kings," Mr Bose said, adding the the BJP-led government should adhere to the concept of 'cooperative federalism'.
"When the central government siphons off the bulk of funds of a state's revenues in the form of debt interest, surely it violates the federal spirit", he said.
He also disputed claims that the eastern region was lagging behind the western part of the country in terms of physical and social infrastructure.
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