Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee astatine the Durga Puja pandal successful Hathibagan successful northbound Kolkata connected Wednesday. (Partha Paul)
Amid ongoing protests against the rape and execution of a trainee doc astatine RG Kar Hospital, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated a slew of assemblage Durga Puja’s connected Wednesday.
As CM Banerjee wished the radical connected the opening of ‘Devi Paksha’ (the fortnight of Goddess Durga’s worship) she besides stated that “many person questioned, wherefore are we celebrating the festival?”
“I should accidental to them — successful Bengali, everyone says “baro mashe tero parbo (13 festivals successful 12 months)”. We enactment and simultaneously observe festivals also. We besides judge successful religion. This is the happiness you tin gain done walking with everybody,” Mamata Banerjee said.
While drafting the eyes of Durga astatine Chetla Agrani Club, CM Banerjee virtually inaugurated 4 100 pujas of antithetic districts of the state. “Maintain bid successful your country during puja. Help constabulary unit to support instrumentality and order. Give peculiar attraction to mothers and sisters of the area,” she said.
Banerjee inaugurated the Durga pujas astatine Hatibagan successful northbound Kolkata and astatine Selimpur, Babubagan, Jodhpur Park, 95 Pally and Chetla Agrani, known to beryllium the domain of Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim, successful southbound Kolkata and said that her authorities has provided fiscal assistance to astir 48,000 clubs successful authorities for organising assemblage Durga Puja.
As she inaugurated the festival contented of her party’s regular ‘Jago Bangla’ and an medium comprising each songs composed by her, Banerjee besides sang a opus written by her.
Alleging that immoderate radical are trying to tarnish the representation of the state, she said, “They volition someday realise that they cannot absolve themselves of what they are doing.”
Mentioning the floods successful galore parts of West Bengal, the CM asked radical to “stand beside” those who person “lost their homes”.
— with PTI Inputs