The chief minister, speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony for Durga Angan, a cultural complex dedicated to the deity at New Town, said: “Some often accuse me of appeasement, but it is not correct. “The Mamata Banerjee government is using government land for a particular religion, instead of promoting common facilities. “The way she is implementing such Hindutva-driven projects goes to show that the RSS has outsourced its agenda to Mamata. “After making a spectacle of the (Lionel) Messi event, Mamata Banerjee has now turned her gaze to defiling the sanctity of Maa Durga,” he wrote in a statement on X. “Her so-called Durga Angan project is steeped in appeasement and fakery, the very hallmarks of her politics.

Source: The Telegraph December 30, 2025 02:30 UTC