BJP president Amit Shah is likely to inaugurate Durga Puja festivities in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's locality this year, party sources said on Thursday.
'Sanghasree Durga Puja Committee' has been organising the puja for the last 73 years. In the last few years, the festivities were inaugurated by Mamata Banerjee.
However, much has changed since the BJP's rise in West Bengal which was seen in this year's Lok Sabha polls when it won 18 of the state's 42 seats, just four less than Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.
BJP's state unit secretary Sayantan Basu now heads the Sanghasree Durga Puja Committee which was previously headed by Mamata Banerjee's brother Kartik Banerjee.