: Scam-accused Partha Chatterjees Durga Puja loses its sheen in Kolkata #IndiaNEWS #India Kolkata: For the last two years the people of Kolkata were unable to enjoy the states biggest festival of Durga

Scam-accused Partha Chatterjees Durga Puja loses its sheen in Kolkata #IndiaNEWS #India
Kolkata: For the last two years the people of Kolkata were unable to enjoy the states biggest festival of Durga Puja to the fullest due to the pandemic and the host of restrictions on pandal hopping imposed by the Calcutta High Court. Finally this year, the Puja revellers hope to enjoy themselves fully during the five days of the Puja starting this weekend. The community Durga Puja committees are also trying to make their individual Pujas a grand success in terms of footfalls.
Since the ruling Trinamool Congress leaders are controlling almost all the major community Puja committees, the political rivalry between the organisers has been reduced to almost zero since 2011, when the Trinamool came to power in West Bengal ending the 34-year Left Front rule in the state.
However, despite the fact that Durga Puja this year is being celebrated without the fear of the Covid-19 pandemic, for Kolkatas two traditionally big-budget Puja committees the festival days this year will be as sombre as the last two years.
The first committee is the Ekdalia Evergreen Club, whose principal mentor was veteran Trinamool Congress leader and former state panchayat minister, late Subrata Mukherjee, who died last year from a sudden heart attack on the evening of Kali Puja. An ardent critic of the current trend of theme-based Puja, Mukherjee had always insisted that Ekdalia Evergreen Club should participate in the Puja in the traditional way with the idols having the conventional look and the pandal having the decor of the old culture of chandeliers and acrylic pandal designs.
This year too, the authorities of the Ekdalia Evergreen Club are organising the Puja in the same tradition way as insisted by their deceased mentor.
Subratada might be a colourful political personality and heavyweight state minister round the year. But on the festive days he was just like an affectionate elder brother not only for us but for the entire locality. He himself used to supervise each and every minor detail and was extremely careful that the traditional Puja culture is not diluted. This year he is in another world. But he continues to be with us every moment. Frankly speaking his absence is a mood-dampener for everybody in the locality, Club secretary Gautam Mukherjee told IANS.
Even Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while attending the inauguration of this Puja last week, became nostalgic about the deceased leader.
The situation is somewhat the same for Naktala Udayan Sangha, but for a different reason. Its chief patron and former state education minister, Partha Chatterjee, is currently in judicial custody because of his alleged involvement in the multi-crore West Bengal School Service Commission scam.

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