Kolkata, June 26 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday said his government was committed to restoring the state's cultural and nationalist heritage, asserting that the promotion of icons such as Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had been neglected by the erstwhile Trinamool Congress government in the state.
Speaking after paying floral tributes on the 189th birth anniversary of Bankim Chandra at the author's ancestral house, now functioning as a library, Adhikari said the former government had been preoccupied with corruption, dynastic politics and policies that had pushed West Bengal backwards.
"Earlier, the Trinamool Congress government did not allow me to enter this house when I had arrived here as...