This year s icing on Christmas cake in Kolkata: symbols of political parties By Ujjwal Roy | Updated: Dec 25, 2020 01:45 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 25 (ANI): With the state Assembly elections due next year, Christmas cakes this time have got different icings political party symbols.
A woman and her friends have opened a stall of homemade cakes with icing designed as lotus (BJP symbol), twin flowers and grass (ruling TMC), hand and sickle-hammer (Congress and CPM).
Piyali Sarker told ANI that she came up with the idea to stand out. My friends and I have been making cakes for a long time. We thought we should make something that would stand out and with the state elections coming up, we hoped that people would find this interesting and attractive, Sarker said.