Didi comes down heavily on Modi over ‘Swami’ prefix for Sri Ramakrishna

CHIEF Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for using the prefix “Swami” before the name of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa in a social media post marking his birth anniversary, alleging that the Prime Minister displayed “cultural insensitivity to great figures” of the state.

- SUBHENDU MAITI @Kolkata

Banerjee said the prime minister had shown “cultural insensitivity to great figures” of the state. She pointed out that Ramakrishna is widely known as “Thakur” in Bengal. Writing on X, she reacted strongly to the post. “Shocked again! Yet again, our prime minister aggressively displays his cultural insensitivity to the great figures of Bengal. Today is the janmatithi of Yugavatara (God’s incarnation in our age), Sri Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsadeva. While trying to hail the great saint