After outrage erupted over the depiction of a dhoti-clad bald man with a walking stick, bearing resemblance to Mahatma Gandhi as ‘Asur’ at a Durga Puja Pandal organised by All India Hindu Mahasabha, the Kolkata Police intervened and changed its look.
Citizens from different walks of life and almost all political parties had expressed their displeasure over the depiction at a Puja Pandal near Ruby-Bypass connector on the eastern fringes of Kolkata and sought intervention of authorities.
“Yesterday evening police personnel came with an artist and changed the idol. We did not want to make any changes but they forced us to do so,” Chandrachur Goswami, working president of the West Bengal state unit of All India Hindu Mahasabha told The Hindu.
