Amit Shah's 'Sonar Bangla' prayer at Durga Puja sparks political war with Trinamool

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah's visit to Kolkata to inaugurate Durga Puja pandals has ignited a political face-off with the Trinamool Congress government.

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00:00And breaking news coming in on the face-off between Home Minister Amit Shah versus the Mamata government.

00:06Amit Shah inaugurates Durga Puja Pandal in Kolkata as the TMC slams the visit.

00:13The TMC says BJP slams Bengal but inaugurates Pandals

00:19as Home Minister Shah pays tribute to those who died in the recent floods.

01:37And if you go back to Japan for two days before he arrived,

01:39some people have thought to see this.

01:42If you're going back to Japan in the opernicas for four hours,

01:45then the benchmark will be good.

01:46There's some trouble for everyone.

01:48If you have any regifiable rules,

01:50see about Japan's wheel power.

01:52And in the 48 hours,

01:54now you're walking and walking here,

01:56someone is walking,

01:57someone is walking on the car,

01:58someone's bus,

01:59someone's bus,

02:00someone's car.

02:01How can you reach this when?

02:02If we are in Kolkata, then how do we go to Kolkata?

02:32the domain of politics it seems and therefore it's not surprising the

02:36politics is unfurling during the Durga Puja festivities as well.

02:40Prime Minister Amit Shah of course in the city for a whirlwind tour. He's in for

02:45just a few hours and he has inaugurated two Durga pujas and during which he said

02:50that he only prays to Goddess Durga that there is a change of government and

02:55which will finally lead to Sonar Bangla. Now the cinema is quick to hit back at

03:00Amit Shah saying that they have not been able to deliver their promise of

03:04development in BJP rule states in double-engine states like Bihar they

03:09also cited the example of how a car that the visuals of which has gone viral had

03:15had sunk when a road had collapsed in Patna while the BJP on in Bengal have

03:22been hitting out of the Mamata Banerjee government over the past four days due to

03:26the deluge that has happened in the city. The city of course is back to

03:30normalcy I'll ask my camera person to show you know it's bright and sunny and

03:35there is no water logging anymore but the Trinamore Congress of course quick to hit

03:39out at Amit Shah saying that it is the same BJP and the BJP leadership who keeps

03:44saying that there is Durga Puja is banned in West Bengal and they come to

03:48inaugurate Durga Puja the same very Durga Puja in West Bengal and that too when

03:53they have criticized the state government just two days back saying that the city was

03:56completely collapsing and it was in deluge the city looks normal people are out on

04:02the streets going about their job and Amit Shah is out here to inaugurate a

04:07Puja so clearly the Trinamore Congress upping the ante and quite aggressively

04:12hitting out at the home minister. Back to you.

04:15So we've seen this politics now over Durga Puja what exactly has the home minister

04:21said and what else has been the response from the TMC well look you know this is

04:30not the first time we've seen you know the BJP Bengal unit trying to get in the

04:35top political leaders during the 2021 state elections the last state elections the

04:41BJP itself held a Durga Puja at the Eastern Zonal Cultural Center which is a

04:45central government unit its party's cultural cell organized the Durga Puja

04:50and there the prime minister opened and inaugurated it virtually this year once

04:55again the home minister has inaugurated the Puja at Ezek Sisi and one more Puja

04:59which is organized by BJP leader Sajal Ghosh but if you see the comparison there

05:04are about 2,700 big Durga Pujas pandals across Kolkata all of them majority of

05:12them are you know with Trinamore Congress leaders and ministers are at the helm of

05:16all their counselors are at the helm so they have a very strong grip on all these

05:21Durga Puja organizers Mamata Banerjee herself has inaugurated almost 3,000

05:26Durga Pujas some physically and some virtually in that backdrop the BJP even

05:30though they have tried hard but they have not been able to make a breakthrough there is

05:33only one big Durga Puja pandal which is you know conducted by a BJP leader

05:38Sajal Ghosh which was inaugurated by Home Minister today the theme of course is

05:43Operation Sindhu and he also you know paid his homage to the martyrs of

05:48Operation Sindhu and also there was a message from Prime Minister Modi

05:51Abdak Pandal clearly even the arena of Durga Puja seems to have become a

05:56political arena ahead of the state elections which is which are due in a few

06:02months time next year and Home Minister Amit Shah did not make any political

06:06comments but he said that his prayer to God is Durga was that there is a political

06:11change in West Bengal okay so that it leads West Bengal to the path of

06:15development and Vixit Bharat at large all right thank you very much for that

06:19Indrajit Kundu politics over Durga Puja in West Bengal

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