Chief minister Mamata Banerjee installed a bust of Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar at Vidyasagar College on Tuesday, 28 days after a bust of the Bengal Renaissance icon was vandalised on the Bidhan Sarani campus by suspected BJP supporters. Mamata led the procession that carried the two-and-a-half-foot-high bust from Hare School on College Street to Vidyasagar College, around a kilometre away. She paused for a few seconds at the intersection of Mahatma Gandhi Road and College Street to wave at supporters. At the college, Mamata first unveiled an eight-and-a-half-foot-high statue of Vidyasagar made of fibreglass in front of the college building. So while installing the new bust, she wished to take a walk from College Street to Bidhan Sarani.”

Source: The Telegraph June 11, 2019 23:37 UTC