Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a ‘British agent’, claims Madhya Pradesh education minister

After facing widespread flak, the MP Higher Education Minister apologised on Sunday, claiming his remark was a "slip of the tongue".

The row erupted at a time when the BJP, after winning the Bihar elections, has set its eyes on TMC-ruled West Bengal, where assembly polls are due next year.

Recently, a political confrontation erupted between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over two of Bengal’s most revered cultural icons, Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.