Kolkata, June 28 -- With State elections barely a year away the 'Rath Rajniti' gained momentum in Bengal - keeping pace with the Hindutva narrative - as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday inaugurated the first Jagannath Rath Yatra from the newly constructed '200 crore Jagannath Temple - at beach town of Digha - a grand and exquisite replica of its ancient Puri alter ego.
This, whereas Opposition Elder Suvendu Adhikari - who earlier called Banerjee's devotion towards Jagannath a "fake" one and only to pull the wools before the eyes of the Sanatani Hindus "for all that sin she has committed by appeasing and inviting the Bangladeshis and Rohingyas in Bengal," - celebrated the festival in Kolkata and his hometown Tamluk by pulling at the...