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A day to honor mothers has existed for as long as there have been mothers. Festivals celebrating mothers in ancient times were often about gods and goddesses. The Greeks and Romans reverenced the mother figure of their gods, and an important festival in India -
Durga-puja to this day honors goddess Durga, also known as
Maa Durga.
While the importance of a mother remains unparalleled, and this truth must be conceded each day, Mother’s Day pushes the world to take one day out of an overloaded roster, to celebrate motherhood and to make an extra-special effort to recognise and appreciate mothers’ roles in our lives. Every so often, this day is extended to generations of mothers grandmothers, great-grandmothers, stepmothers as well as mother figures.
âBlackshirtsâ Of Bengal: How Fascism Entered The State Disguised As Democracy
BJP office set on fire in Bengal on Sunday evening
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As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, West Bengal under the draconian leadership of Mamata Banerjee tops the list of political killings under the category âMurder due to Political Reasonâ.
But what is now happening to the Karyakartas of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state is unprecedented and has crossed all limits of barbarism and anarchy.
The ongoing slaughter of BJP Karyakartas and Hindu rights activists in West Bengal is a perfect example of fascism disguised in democracy. The land that was once fortunate to have birthed brave children like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Swami Vivekanand and Bina Das, experienced grave political violence in the post-independence era.
Can Mamata Banerjee be a potential PM candidate for 2024?
A lot of people opposed to Modi see in Mamata a force that can hold back the Modi juggernaut.
By Kingshuk Nag| Updated: 5th May 2021 6:55 pm IST West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a virtual meeting in support of party candidates for the last two phases of election campaigning, at Bolpur in Birbhum district.
Kingshuk Nag
The comfortable win by Mamata Banerjee in the recently concluded West Bengal assembly elections, beating Modi and Amit Shah’s BJP has raised speculation whether she will be a Prime Ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha election in 2024. The answer will be ‘No’ or ‘Yes’ depending on how you assess the situation, but a lot of people opposed to Modi see in Mamata a force that can hold back the Modi juggernaut.
The minority voters had also learnt lessons from the recent Assembly elections in neighbouring Bihar where division of votes in Seemanchal had benefited the BJP. While AIMIM played the spoiler for RJD in Bihar, it got no traction in West Bengal. Neither did ISF despite attracting big crowds at rallies. These two parties did not get a single seat as Muslims voted en masse for TMC.
Fielding Yogi Adityanath in the campaign has not worked either. His threat of forming the “anti-Romeo squad” if BJP is voted to power and raking up Love Jihad did not impress voters in the state.
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