KOLKATA HIGH COURT JUDGMENT FOR MAMATA
Why two communities cannot celebrate their respective festival together if the festivals of both the communities fall on the same occasion? Kolkata High Court sternly posed this very pertinent question to Mamata Banerjee, the CM of West Bengal and thereby ordered her government to reverse the decision of postponing the day of immersion of Durga Idols. Very true that it is the duty of the state government to ensure and maintain law and order to create an atmosphere of cordiality rather than drawing a line of divide between communities. Mumata should have called a meeting with the leaders and organizers of processions of two communities and the state administrative officers to rather draw out respective routes for the Tajiya and Durga processions to the best satisfaction of two communities. Here Mamata was going to do a great mistake of a seeming display of appeasement to a particular community, which any self respective citizen in democracy will find it unconstitutional and discrimin