Digha Jagannath temple inauguration

It has been billed as the Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) “Ayodhya moment” and has the BJP in a bind just as it was looking to hit the accelerator against the Mamata Banerjee government in the aftermath of communal violence in Murshidabad.On Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee will inaugurate a Jagannath temple in the coastal town Digha in Purba Medinipur district, a popular seaside tourist destination, on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya, hoping to politically benefit from it at a time when she has increasingly come under attack from the BJP over its alleged “appeasement politics” towards Muslims. As a result of the TMC encroaching on the BJP’s domain of temple politics, the occasion of the shrine’s inauguration has turned into a political flashpoint. While...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that she would visit violence-hit parts of Murshidabad district in the first week of May to assess the situation. Before that, she will be visiting Digha to inaugurate Jagannath temple. Reiterating her charge that “outsiders” were involved in the violence that took place during protests against the Centre’s new Waqf law, the chief minister said that her government would “soon expose the conspirators” behind the riots. “The violence was unfortunate. We do not want riots. Some outsiders orchestrated it, but we will expose them and their conspiracy,” the chief minister said at an administrative programme in Paschim Medinipur. Story continues below this ad “I have promised the families of those killed in the viole...

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Digha Jagannath temple opening sets up new BJP-TMC showdown

Nearly a month after violence, Bengal CM to visit Murshidabad in early May