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WATCH: Mamata Breaks Into Santhali Dance Dong as She Welcomes All Religions to Bengal
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee broke into a dance during the opening of Bangla Sangeet Mela 2020 in Kolkata.
At the same event, Banerjee hinted that she won t let Bengal be the place of divisive politics by stating that it would never be turned into Gujarat.
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According to a report in
The Telegraph, the CM broke into a jig – a traditional Santhali welcome dance called Dong with Hembram and several other artistes at the inauguration of the Bangla Sangeet Mela and the Biswa Bangla Sanskriti Utsav, 2020. Hembram was handed the Sangeet Samman at the event.
Mamata Banerjee dances for unity message The CM was at the inauguration of Bangla Sangeet Mela and Biswa Bangla Sanskriti Utsav organised by the state government
Mamata Banerjee was seen shaking a leg for the first time in recent memory as she danced on stage along with tribal musician Basanti Hembram, a recipient of the state government’s Sangeet Samman, at an event on Wednesday evening.
If the Santhali welcome dance was not enough for the chief minister to drive home the message that the “holy soil” of Bengal would remain unscathed in divisive politics, she said the state would never be turned into Gujarat.