{"id":346092,"date":"2023-10-12T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=346092"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:22:42","slug":"amit-shah-to-visit-kolkata-on-monday-to-inaugurate-durga-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/amit-shah-to-visit-kolkata-on-monday-to-inaugurate-durga-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"Amit Shah to visit Kolkata on Monday to inaugurate Durga Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-1024x538.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-346093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-1024x538.png 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-768x403.png 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-696x365.png 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-1068x561.png 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja-800x420.png 800w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/10\/Amit-Shah-to-visit-Kolkata-on-Monday-to-inaugurate-Durga-Puja.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kolkata : Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Kolkata on October 16 to inaugurate Durga Puja in central Kolkata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will inaugurate the Puja of Santosh Mitra Square at Lebutala Park in central Kolkata, whose principal organiser is BJP councilor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Sajal Ghosh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme of this particular community Puja this year is Ram Mandir in Ayodhya. \u201cThe Prime Minister Narandra Modi will be inaugurating the Ram Mandir at Ayodhya in January next year. But before that Home Minister will be inaugurating another Ram Mandir in Kolkata, \u201d Ghosh told media persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ghosh also confirmed that the only programme that Shah will have in Kolkata on Monday will be to inaugurate the Puja. \u201cAs per the schedule fixed so far, he will be in the city for a couple of hours. He will come to the city, inaugurate the Puja and go back to New Delhi, \u201d Ghosh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santosh Mitra Square, this year too, has maintained its tradition of not accepting the donation and other financial benefits offered by the state government to the community Durga Puja committees every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had not been accepting donations for the last two years. Pujas have been organised with lots of pomp and grandeur even before. So it will happen this year as well. But we do not want to be party to waste money of the state exchequer and that too at a time when the state government is unable to meet essential expenditure for development or go for recruitment for the vacant posts, \u201d Ghosh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata : Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Kolkata on October 16 to inaugurate Durga Puja in central Kolkata. He will inaugurate the Puja of Santosh Mitra Square at Lebutala Park in central Kolkata, whose principal organiser is BJP councilor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Sajal Ghosh. The theme of this particular community Puja this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":346093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15719,17458,17457],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346094,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346092\/revisions\/346094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/346093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}