She said there was a deliberate attempt by the state government to blind the youths by erecting huge buildings and shopping malls so that they remain ignorant of the glorious past.

“We even lost the Nobel Prize awarded to Rabindranath Tagore and now the government has got a replica,” she said. Mamata further said that though the past has not been preserved, the government has been very lenient in distributing liquor licences all over the state.

“We are definitely not against globalisation, but not at the cost of the lives of poor farmers. How can the state government talk of globalisation when it has totally failed to generate jobs for the youths over the last 32 years?” asked the Trinamool supremo.

“If any of the revolutionaries were here today to witness the state of affairs they would be extremely hurt,” she added.

Others, including artist Suvaprasanna and theatre personality Bhibhas Chakraborty, insisted that the state government had not taken any initiative to inculcate feelings of respect for the revolutionaries among the students and youths of West Bengal. Also present on the occasion were SUCI leaders Manik Mukherjee and Pravash Ghosh.

On Monday, the death centenary celebrations were marred by controversies. Two organisations — the CPM’s students’ and youth wings — had organised the programme at the statue of Bose near the High Court.