New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s foundation‑stone laying ceremony for a sprawling Mahakal temple complex in Siliguri on Friday, is being seen as part of an attempt to change her ‘minority appeasement’ tag before the upcoming state Assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress supremo has long been accused of implementing welfare schemes and protections that critics claimed disproportionately benefited Muslims. She has thus been targeted, especially by the stat…
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New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s political strategy, long been accused of being weighed towards minority appeasement with welfare schemes and protections that critics say disproportionately benefit Muslims, now appears to be veering towards building temples. When asked to comment on Tuesday, Home Minister Amit Shah, currently on a trip to the state, welcomed her efforts, quipping “but it’s too late” perhaps in reference to the upcoming Assembly electi…
Kolkata, Dec 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday laid the foundation stone for Durga Angan, the Goddess Durga temple at New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata. She also announced that the stone-laying ceremony of the Mahakal (Lord Shiva) temple at Siliguri in Darjeeling district will be held in the second week of next month.“Today, the foundation stone for the Durga Angan has been laid, and the work for the construction of the same will start now. In the secon…
Kolkata, Dec 29 (IANS) As West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is scheduled to inaugurate “Durga Angan”, a Goddess Durga temple at New Town on the northern outskirts of Kolkata later in the day, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) described the initiative as yet another example of what it called the hallmark of her appeasement politics.BJP’s Information Technology Cell chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, issued a statement on social media on Monday, cla…