Kolkata, May 1 -- Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee too has a mandir to take pride on now. The chief minister on Wednesday sneaked into the proverbial "Mandir politics" by inaugurating a gigantic replica of Puri's Jagannath Temple an Rs 250 crore state-funded project at the popular beach town of Digha on Bay of Bengal. The temple a grand replica of the Puri's ancient Jagannath Temple has been constructed by the West Bengal Housing and Urban Development Corporation Ltd.
This, even as a frantic BJP continued to question why in a "secular" country the state would fund religious enterprise. Banerjee on her part added salt to BJP's injury by receiving senior saffron leader and former state president Dilip Ghosh at the guest house of the Dig...