CM Suvendu Adhikari inaugurates Amherst Street Yuvasree Kali Puja on Friday evening
He was a patron of the Chorbagan Durga Puja, where a stampede claimed 19 lives.
Prabandha Ray, chief organiser of Fatakeshto Kali Puja, off Keshab Chandra Sen Street, had earlier said they had invited the CM to visit their pandal, but were yet to get any confirmation. This year, we sent an invitation to the CM’s office to inaugurate our puja,” the organiser had said. He may visit some other pujas in the Amherst Street area,” Tamoghna Ghosh, BJP’s North Kolkata district president and the key person behind Jhamapukur Sarbojonin, had said earlier. “Yuvasree, whose main organiser is minister Tapas Ray, has also invited the CM,” Ghosh had said. “Our puja, themed on rajbari (royal palace), will be inaugurated on June 7 by the health minister,” said Subir Dutta, secretary of the puja committee. For the first time, we will distribute Iskcon bhog from the pandal and will host aghori sadhus from Allahabad,” club secretary Sujoy Saha said.
“We have invited the CM to visit our pandal. Jhamapukur Sarbojonin’s pandal is in Subol Chandra Lane, off Amherst Street, while a dais set up by the organisers for a musical programme occupies nearly half the width of Amherst Street. Almost all pujas in the area organise soirees, for which separate daises are set up. Health minister Mukherjee was a guest at the event. “We will strictly follow all sanatani rituals.
“Celebrities used to inaugurate our puja earlier. Last year, we had thought about inviting then CM Mamata Banerjee , but it did not work out. Salt Lake’s most high-profile puja, Maitri Sangha in BF Block, which used to be patronised by former Trinamool Congress MLA Sabyasachi Dutta till last year, is set to be inaugurated by CM Adhikari and panchayat minister Dilip Ghosh.
CM Adhikari inaugurated the Kali Puja in Salt Lake GC Block on Friday evening.