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Kolkata, Jan 12: The Trinamool Congress and the BJP Tuesday indulged in verbal duel in a bid to appropriate the legacy of Swami Vivekananda on his birth anniversary ahead of the assembly polls.
The opposition BJP said it wants to take the state on the path of development following the principles of the 19th- century monk, while the TMC asserted that the land of Swami Vivekananda will never accept the “hate politics imported from Gujarat”.
Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary was celebrated on Tuesday across West Bengal with the main attraction being his house at Simla Street here, where leaders of various political parties paid tributes to the Hindu spiritual leader and…