Mohammed Sajid & Tarun Kartick
Port Blair, Sep 11: After a delay of about eight years Port Blair Municipal Council has finally reconstructed and renovated Capt. Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee Park located at Prem Nagar. This step of PBMC was well appreciated by all and as a mark of respect to the True Hero of Andaman the PBMC has installed a bust of Martyr Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee at the Centre of the park.
But the bust has now triggered a fresh controversy in Andaman as the bust carries no resemblance with Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee. Friends, class mates and even teachers of Late Capt. Bhattacharjee allege that the bust doesn’t even carry 10% resemblance.
“This is like insulting our Martyr. The PBMC should have taken great care before finalizing the bust. The present bust doesn’t look like Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee at all. Who has finalized the final output? Who has approved it?” questions a teacher of Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee, who doesn’t want his name to be quoted.
Andaman Sheekha has the real pictures of Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee and with the real picture readers can easily make out whether the present bust at CAKB look like him.
In this regard Andaman Sheekha contacted Mr. A. Maheshwar Rao, EE, PBMC to know why this irrelevant bust, which has almost no resemblance with the real picture of Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee, was approved and installed.
Mr. Maheshwar Rao informed Andaman Sheekha that the bust was approved by the council in the year 2002 and was proposed by the then Chairperson, Mr Sher Singh. However, neither Mr. Rao nor anyone else in PBMC could say whether any approval was taken from the family members of Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee before placing the Bust in CAKB Park.
“We demand that the PBMC must immediately replace the Bust and install another Bust, which should look like our real hero. If PBMC has taken up a task then the task must be completed with full responsibility. Nothing should be done just for the sake of doing,” said a school mate of Capt. Ashim Kumar Bhattacharjee.
