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‘ModiShahsurmardini’ poster positioned close to the home of Mamata Banerjee

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As the Durga Puja celebrations kick off in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress employees have provide you with a hoarding on Harish Mukherjee Street the place the Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee lives. The poster has a picture of Mamata Banerjee with folded palms and has described her as “ModiShahsurmadini.” 
The caption is a spin on the goddess Durga’s epithet “Mahisasura Mardini,” which implies “one who slays the demon Mahishahsur.” Through this poster, Mamata Banerjee’s loyalists have insinuated that like Goddess Durga killed Mahishahsur, their supremo will “slay” PM Narendra Modi and HM Amit Shah.
The poster got here up most likely after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee received the Bhabanipur meeting after she defeated her nearest rival Priyanka Tibrewal of the BJP by a margin of 58,832 votes after counting was held on Sunday (October 3).
TMC Lok Sabha MP and nationwide spokesperson Mahua Moitra was one of many first to share the image of the hoarding.
ModiShahsurmardini…. pic.twitter.com/upyCaJSJlU— Mahua Moitra (@MahuaMoitra) October 3, 2021
Though the Trinamool Congress mentioned that the poster was put up by “overenthusiastic” supporters and never by the get together, a cautious have a look at the poster reveals “Ward no. 83 Trinamool Mahila Congress” written on the bottom-right nook of the hoarding, an apparent implication that the hoarding was put up by TMC’s girls’s wing.
The poster that has come up close to Mamata Banerjee’s residence within the Kalighat space in Kolkata
The BJP has slammed the Trinamool Congress saying that the hoarding displays the “audacity, taste and culture of the Trinamool Congress”.
This shouldn’t be the primary time that the Trinamool Congress get together members have tried to painting their supremo and West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee as goddess Durga. On September 2, three committees had collaborated to sculpt a statue resembling West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, with ten arms akin to that of Goddess Durga. The committees had determined that the statue will likely be positioned together with the idol of the Goddess at a Durga Puja pandal in Kolkata.
Statue resembling Mamata Banerjee, with ten arms akin to that of Goddess Durga being sculpted in Kolkata
This deification of Mamata Banerjee, who has blood of harmless Bengalis on her hand, following the ugly submit ballot violence in Bengal, is nauseating. This is an insult to goddess Durga. Mamata Banerjee should cease this. She is hurting the sensibilities of Hindus of Bengal. https://t.co/1px1OqsFWA— Amit Malviya (@amitmalviya) September 2, 2021
Taking a dig on the Trinamool Congress get together, BJP chief Amit Malviya had then Tweeted: “This deification of Mamata Banerjee, who has blood of innocent Bengalis on her hand, following the gruesome post-poll violence in Bengal, is nauseating. This is an insult to goddess Durga. Mamata Banerjee must stop this. She is hurting the sensibilities of Hindus of Bengal”.