Agartala, June 12 -- Tripura BJP President and Rajya Sabha MP Rajib Bhattacharjee on Thursday strongly condemned the recent attack on Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore's ancestral home in Bangladesh.

Speaking to ANI, Bhattacharjee expressed deep concern over the vandalism of the historic site, calling it a "shameful incident" and a "disrespect to a global icon."

"This is a very shameful incident because the world-renowned poet Rabindranath Tagore, a pride of our world, has been disrespected," he said.

He reminded that during the tenure of the Yunus government in Bangladesh, Tagore's ancestral home was decided to be preserved as a government-run museum.

"During the tenure of the Yunus government in Bangladesh, it was decided that Tago...