August 3, 2016
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar speaks on the need to preserve the cultural heritage of Chandraketugarh
Thank you Hon’ble Madam for giving this opportunity to raise a very important issue concerning my constituency.
Hon’ble Madam, heritage is our pride, heritage is our sentiment. I bring to your notice and this august House about Maharaja Chandraketu who is supposed to have ruled more than 2000 years ago in a place called Chandraketugarh in Berachanpa which is within my constituency of Deganga.
The pious Ganges River is supposed to have flown there and that’s why the place is known as Deganga. Maritime trade was carried out with Europe 2000 years ago. Seals, terracotta, figurines recovered there are getting being lost.
Our Hon’ble Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had formed the Heritage Commission and excavation had started under the Archaeological Survey of India. We were expecting it to become a United Nations Heritage site but the excavation has stopped.
I draw your notice Madam, and through you the Hon’ble Minister of Culture, so that this place of heritage should find its place of prominence within our country.
Thank you.
