Mamta Banerjee stalled Durga Murthy’s immersion during Muharram

The Mamta Government of West Bengal has announced that this year, during the Moharram procession, the immersion of the statue of Durga will be ban. In spite of all the PILs filed in the Kolkata High Court last year, this is being done this year too.

During a meeting with the Durga Puja organizers on Wednesday evening in Kolkata, the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, “On the day of Vijay Dashami, the statue will be immersed in the evening till 6 pm, because after that the moharram procession will be out, if these two things will be together , Then the problem may arise. I want help of all of you in this matter. Some people would like to take advantage of this opportunity and for their own benefit. ” Mamta Banerjee tweeted later, “Except for a period of 24 hours on the day of Muharram, immersion can occur on October 2, 3 and 4.”

Similarly in the same year last year, the state government had issued a ban on idol immersion. Because of which Vijay Dashami was celebrated with Muharram a day earlier. Last year, on October 11, Dussehra was and on October 13, Muharram However, the Calcutta High Court had termed the government’s decision as “arbitrary” and called the state “a clear attempt” to “make the minority of the people happy”.

In the order of October 6, 2016, a bench headed by Justice Deepankar Dutta said that no such decision can be taken that would make ‘one community against another’.