New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- Days after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condemned Delhi police for calling the Bengali language "Bangladeshi", Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury accused the ruling Trinamool Congress and the BJP of politicising the issues and noted that Bangla is not a "new language".

He also noted that Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for his contributions to the Bangla language.

On TMC claims Delhi Police called Bengali a Bangladeshi language, Chowdhury told ANI, "Bangla is not a new language; it is considered the sweetest language. To establish this language, a new nation was formed--Bangladesh... The first person in Asia to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Rabindranath Tagore for his poetry...