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"মানুষ আমাকে জিজ্ঞেস করে, আমি কেন তৃণমূলের সাংসদ পদ থেকে ইস্তফা দিয়েছি'। আমার বিবেক কি আমাকে এমন পচে যাওয়া দলের অংশ হওয়ার অনুমতি দিতে পারে? তৃণমূল সাম্প্রদায়িক বিজেপির কঠিনতম প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বী বলেই আমি সেখানে যোগ দিয়েছিলাম, কিন্তু দুর্নীতির জন্যই আমি দল ছেড়েছি।"

“People ask me why I resigned as MP of Trinamool Congress. Would my conscience allow me to be a part of such rot?” Sircar wrote on his X. “I went with the Trinamool Congress as it is the toughest fighter against communal, fascist BJP. I left because Trinamool’s corruption and authoritarianism were getting too bad.”

In the presentation, titled ‘Aniconic to the Iconic’, Jawhar Sircar explained how the evolution of a deity in Hinduism also alters the ways in which it is worshipped.

Former Union culture secretary Jawhar Sircar, who later went on to become a member of the Rajya Sabha from the Trinamool Congress before resigning in September 2024 over the West Bengal government’s handling of a rape and murder case, has been expressing concern over the larger Central Vista project and specifically the National Museum ever since the plans were announced. He also used his position as MP to ask questions of the culture minister about the plans, but does not believe he received honest or straightforward answers.

“Gurusaday Dutt’s wife was beside her husband but not in the same kind of work. She chose her area of work. She first started working in Pabna (now in Bangladesh) with women who were under purdah,” said Jawhar Sircar, former MP and retired IAS officer, the chief guest....

“In the 1920s, it had a very profound impact. At the cutting edge, she played a big role — at the grassroots level not only at the educated level. Nari Sikha would later on become a model for women’s development after Independence,” Sircar told The Telegraph.