FACED with a seemingly invincible Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress, which crushed the BJP in the 2021 Bengal Assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah appears to have found in Goddess Durga a new means to exhort his partymen in the state, where infightings are sapping their energy.
Following Shah’s two-day visit to Bengal, the first since the BJP’s drubbing, the Union Home Ministry issued an unusually lengthy press release in Hindi dedicated to the minister’s visions of Durga and her mythical powers.
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