India, Dec. 9 -- West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should apologise to people for his remarks referring to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee as "Bankim da". Even then he won't be forgiven, she said.

"Yesterday he (Modi) referred to Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay as Bankim da. As if he is just any common man. He wrote our National Song and you (Modi) didn't even give him a minimum respect? You should apologise for this publicly. Even then you won't be forgiven because you have insulted the nation's culture, history and freedom movement," she said while addressing a political rally in Cooch Behar district in north Bengal.

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