Durga Puja Pandal By Kolkata BJP Leader Recollects Bengal Post-Poll Violence
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The pandal will be covered with black cloth, with wails of women who lost their children playing in the background, said BJP leader Biswajit Sarkar, the organiser of the community puja in Narkeldanga.
Violence that rocked West Bengal following last year's assembly elections is the theme of a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata with the Goddess shown as the mother of a dead child.
The pandal will be covered with black cloth, with wails of women who lost their children playing in the background, said BJP leader Biswajit Sarkar, the organiser of the community puja in Narkeldanga.
"While the entire state celebrates the festivities, the families of those killed in the violence will mourn their loved ones on those days," said Mr Sarkar, whose brother Abhijit was killed on May 2 last year, soon after the election results were announced.
"We are trying to depict the reality by portraying the mothers who would never be able to celebrate the again," he told PTI.
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