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However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.
“Kali need not always be in one position. Encourage your girls to think of new ways of picturing Her…Let them draw and model and paint their own ideas,” wrote Vivekananda.
Priests at the Kali temple, built by the ancestors of former chief minister Amarinder Singh, say that there is a reason why liquor and meat are offered to Goddess Kali.
Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who has been facing flak from the BJP over her recent controversial comments on Goddess Kali, has asserted that the saffron party is not the custodian of Hindu deities.