Opinion | This Poll Season, Mamata Banerjee's Hindu Outreach Goes The Extra Mile |
Opinion | This Poll Season, Mamata Banerjee's Hindu Outreach Goes The Extra Mile
Updated: Mar 10, 2026 22:02 pm IST Published On Mar 10, 2026 21:09 pm IST Last Updated On Mar 10, 2026 22:02 pm IST
Published On Mar 10, 2026 21:09 pm IST
Last Updated On Mar 10, 2026 22:02 pm IST
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has been on an overdrive for about a year, to announce and inaugurate temples in various corners of the state, amid BJP allegations that she is "appeasing" the minority Muslim community.
Banerjee -- a devotee of goddess Kali -- holds an annual Kali Puja for decades at her home, barely a couple of kilometers away from the famous Kali temple in Kalighat. But she never played up her personal religious credentials in the political arena before the BJP landed in a big way on Bengal's battleground in 2019.
Now she seems to have decided to play up the Bengali-Hindu sentiment on the political stage to counter the BJP brand of "Hindutva" in a bipolar political state.
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