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KOLKATA
With Assembly polls astir the corner, some the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) took portion successful Ram Navami celebrations on Thursday (March 26, 2026), with rallies that took implicit Kolkata and Howrah, and which doubled up arsenic canvass run platforms. BJP supporters held pujas at apical universities successful the city, including Calcutta University and Jadavpur University.
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari led a Ram Navami rally clad successful orangish and holding a emblem in Bhawanipur, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s location constituency, where he is contesting against the Trinamool chairperson.
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Mr. Adhikari took to the streets of Bhawanipur on foot, holding his banner and calling for “Ram Rajya” in West Bengal.
“We privation jobs successful hand, nutrient successful the belly, extortion implicit the head, good governance, and extortion for women,” Mr. Adhikari said during the rally arsenic helium met voters on the route; the spiritual procession moving as his poll campaign.
On the different hand, ruling TMC leaders Kunal Ghosh and Madan Mitra besides took portion successful abstracted Ram Navami programmes; both person been fielded arsenic candidates by the party.
Mr. Ghosh was seen starring a Ram Navami rally successful Bidhan Sarani, while Mr. Mitra celebrated the festival successful Dunlop connected the outskirts of Kolkata.
“This is not a Hindi rashtra; radical person the state to observe immoderate festival here,” Mr. Mitra said.
BJP besides held Ram Navami processions successful assorted parts of Howrah. The party’s candidate Rudranil Ghosh, held a rally successful his constituency in Shibpur.
Police and central forces have been deployed successful ample numbers crossed the State to woody with immoderate issues during the rallies.
Ram Navami astatine universities
Two prestigious universities successful Kolkata, Calcutta University (CU) and Jadavpur University (JU), witnessed their ain Ram Navami celebrations connected Thursday.
The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the pupil helping of the BJP, organised a Ram Navami puja wrong the JU field successful southbound Kolkata, and close extracurricular the CU gross successful northbound Kolkata.
Tensions roseate successful JU arsenic ABVP supporters raised Jai Shri Ram slogans wrong the campus and organised two abstracted pujas wrong the institute. A monolithic constabulary presence was seen wrong the campus.
Students astatine the assemblage raised slogans against the ABVP and the emergence of communal forces on campus.
On the different hand, the Ram Navami organisers outside CU vowed that they would “create the conditions that would let them to observe Ram Navami wrong JU and CU successful the coming years.”
