kolkataJanuary 1, 2026 04:32 AM (IST)
Date first printed: December 31, 2025 10:58 AM IST
Jagannath temple The coastal city of Digha A temple complicated devoted to Goddess Durga in Kolkata, South Bengal. Mahakal Temple in Siliguri in northern Bengal. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is usually focused by the Bharatiya Janata Get together for “minority appeasement”, is busy engaged on the temple challenge.
“Many individuals accuse me of appeasement politics, however I’m a real secularist,” Banerjee mentioned on Monday. lay the cornerstone Durga Angan is a 17-acre temple and cultural complicated devoted to Goddess Durga to be constructed within the New City space of Kolkata. “I consider in peaceable coexistence of all religions. You can not let me see any non secular celebrations that I don’t attend. I cowl my head after I go to a gurdwara. Why do you complain after I take part in Roza (fasting throughout Ramzan)? Which? Religions even have cultural customs. Can any faith be ignored? There are people who find themselves looting and vandalizing. Choices are being made about who ought to keep and who ought to go. I pray to Goddess Durga who destroys evil. ”
