Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday denied in the Lok Sabha allegation that during his visit to West Bengal he had sat on the chair of Rabindranath Tagore saying “the window seat” he occupied was also used by likes of Jawaharlal Nehru, Pranab Mukherjee and Rajiv Gandhi.
“I asked Vishwabharti Vice-Chancellor to clarify and he said no such incident took place”, said Shah in the house rejecting Congress MP Adhir Rahan Chowdhury’s allegations.
Shah said he sat on a window seat “where everybody is allowed to sit”.
Shah said Nehru, Pranab Mukherjee and Rajiv Gandhi too occupied the same seat.
The home minister asked members to do some research before sourcing their statements from the social media.
Shah also denied comments attributed to the BJP president JP Nadda during latter’s visit to West Bengal.