New Delhi, February 27
Gone are the days when Sukanta Bhattacharya's poem was played by Left parties to mobilise crowd for rallies in Kolkata. Instead, "Tumpa Sona", a recent raunchy number released on a web platform, has been turned into a parody by the CPM to draw crowd for the rally jointly organised by the CPM-led Left Front, Congress and Indian Secular Front at Kolkata's Brigade Ground on Sunday.
Justifying the song, Shubha Prasad Nandi Majumdar, cultural activist of the CPM, said turning a popular song into a parody and then singing it at Communist Party events had taken place in Bengal in the past too. "The use of 'Tumpa Sona' by the CPM for drawing crowd for the rally shows how desperate they are to impress voters," Saptarshi Biswas, award winning Bengali poet, said. — TNS
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