PM to join Durga Puja event in Bengal today

October 22, 2020 09:32

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate Durga Puja pandals in Kolkata via video conferencing today as the five-day celebrations begin in West Bengal amid the pandemic.

The BJP claims it has made elaborate arrangements for the live-viewing of PM Modi's virtual address to the people. TV screens have been put up in all the 78,000 election booth areas across the state.

The prime minister will virtually inaugurate a pandal that BJP has set up in Salt Lake in Kolkata at a cultural centre run by the central government's ministry of culture.

The prime minister tweeted last evening about joining the festivities at 10 am. He is likely to deliver his speech at noon.

Several big names are likely to stage cultural performances in the two hours before the speech, including dancer Dona Ganguly, wife of BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly.

Today is maha shashti, the first of five days of worship of goddess Durga.

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