On road to Bengal polls, all eyes on PM Modi's Visva-Bharati University centenary address

Ahe of West Bengal polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dress centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University in Shantiniketan, West Bengal. West Bengal Goverr Jagdeep Dhankhar and Union education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal will also be present during ceremony. Founded by Rabindranath Tagore in 1921, Visva-Bharati is one of oldest central universities in country. 

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Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote that he is looking forward to dressing centenary celebrations of iconic Visva-Bharati University, which he described as one among premium centres of learning and is closely associated with Rabindranath Tagore. His dress at Visva-Bharati University comes just days after he dressed centenary celebrations of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

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Rabindranath Tagore, a bel laureate, is one of most revered icons in Indian history and hailed from Bengal, a state which will go to assembly polls in first half of next year. In May 1951, Visva-Bharati was declared a Central University and an "institution of national importance" by an Act of Parliament, PMO ted.  university followed pedagogy devised by Tagore, though grually it evolved in format in which modern universities developed elsewhere. Narendra Modi, as Prime Minister, is ex-officio Chancellor of university.

West Bengal polls 

West Bengal assembly with 294 seats will go to polls in April-May 2021, Trinamool holds 222 seats. However, BJP has me major inros in state in Lok Sabha elections winning 18 seats and establishing itself as major opposition force in state. Recently TMC trumped BJP in all 3 bypolls but BJP is using its booth-level strategy, has regularly dispatched its top leers including Amit Shah and JP Nda in state for winning upcoming elections. dress at Visva-Bharati is is likely to entail Prime Minister's official entry into poll fray, in a state that BJP regards as its final frontier and against a tremendously strong and popular regional power in Mamata Banerjee.

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(With PTI inputs)