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BJP only bent on dividing country, cancelled public holiday on Christmas: Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at the BJP-led government at the Centre saying it is only bent on dividing the country and has cancelled public holidays on festivals like Christmas. Inaugurating the Christmas festival at Allen Park in the city s downtown Park Street area, the TMC supremo condemned the politics of hatred pursued by the Narendra Modi government. Some people can only divide the country. The BJP government has cancelled the public holiday on Christmas after coming to power. Why did they do so? Don t they have any regard for the sentiments of the Christian community?  Banerjee said lashing out at the saffron party.
Mamata Banerjee questioned the Central government as to why Christmas is not declared as a national holiday . West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: ANI
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Trinamool Congress and BJP have been locking horns with each other ahead of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections
The highly-anticipated state elections are likely to be held in April-May next year
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a blistering attack at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and accused it of carrying out religious hatred politics in the country. She questioned the Central government as to why Christman is not declared as a national holiday .
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Mamata said Amit Shah made Bengal look like a land of nightmares.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday put out data in response to Union Home Minister Amit Shah s stinging criticism of her government s performance during his two-day visit to the state last week.Â
During a press conference in Kolkata, Mamata offered a point-by-point rebuttal to Amit Shah s charge to stress that Bengal has progressed well under the Trinamool Congress regime.Â
She put out data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) to claim that the crime graph of Bengal has dipped in the last decade. Mamata highlighted that Kolkata has been accorded the safest city tag twice.Â