West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee is always in news for her pseudo-secular approach evidently for minority-appeasing for vote-bank politics when she first fixed monthly salaries for Imams and muazinns of mosques in the state, an order which was later turned down as unconstitutional by Calcutta High Court.
Now she has appointed state Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim as the chairman of the newly formed Tarakeshwar Development Board-TDB in Hooghly district to take care of the 288-year old Tarakeshwar Shiva temple. Even self-acclaimed secular-lobby cannot logically justify Muslim as head of a Hindu-temple. At least a religious community must have head of the board taking care of religious institution from the same community. It seems being in news for pseudo-secularism is her motto when she knows very well that court-orders striking down her such minority-appeasing decisions will also bring her in news adding to her TRP-rating for pseudo-secularism.
SUBHASH CHANDRA AGRAWAL