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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Thursday (October 16, 2025) announced the operation of the Mahakal temple astatine Siliguri successful Darjeeling district. This is the 3rd large task of constructing temples undertaken by the West Bengal authorities aft the Jagannath temple successful Digha and Durga Angan astatine Rajarhat.
“I person besides asked DM [District Magistrate, Darjeeling] to look for onshore for a normal centre astatine Siliguri, and adjacent to it, I volition conception a large Mahakal temple. It volition person the highest tower. For this, we volition person to acceptable up a trust, but everything volition beryllium done by america [the West Bengal government], taking on everyone, including backstage players, who are consenting to articulation us,” the Chief Minister told media persons successful Darjeeling. The Trinamool Congress chairperson announced the operation of the Mahakal temple astatine Siliguri aft visiting the celebrated Mahakal temple astatine Darjeeling hills.
After inaugurating a ₹250-crore Jagannath temple astatine Digha earlier this year, Ms. Banerjee had announced Durga Angan astatine Rajarhat. On Thursday (October 15), she said the task of mounting up the spot for the temple had been completed, and she had looked into the architecture of the temple.
The announcement of operation of the 3rd temple successful a span of a twelvemonth assumes value arsenic it goes with the “soft Hindutva” propulsion of West Bengal’s ruling party. Political observers accidental this determination of constructing temples is an effort to antagonistic the “aggressive Hindutva” propulsion by the BJP.
The Chief Minister, who has been overseeing flood alleviation operations successful Darjeeling, connected Thursday urged the tourists to instrumentality to the Queen of the Hills. Floods and landslides had battered Darjeeling and adjoining districts of North Bengal earlier this period and hundreds of tourists were rescued by the State government.
“Tourists person started coming and I met immoderate of them. After floods, the inflow of tourists had stopped. We had rescued astir 1,500 tourists [during floods],” Ms. Banerjee said.
The Chief Minister said 2 roads starring to Darjeeling — 1 from Tindharia and different from Pankhabari — had been opened and the roadworthy moving from Rohini would beryllium unfastened successful 15 to 20 days. “I volition impulse tourists to travel to Darjeeling,” she said.
