Pre-Puja rush: A multi-armed Mamata Banerjee's idol is sending Kolkata into a tizzy!

This year, Durga Puja has got a Didi touch! Literally.

At the Bhawanipore Durgotsav Samiti pandal, the Durga idol has got a Mamata-like makeover. Bhawanipore, which falls under the Kalighat constituency, is sporting an idol that is a lookalike of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Incidentally, Kalighat is the Assembly constituency of the CM.

The look-alike idol, inspired by 'Didi' shows her draped in her signature white sari with a blue border and rubber slippers. Banerjee’s figure is seen folding her hands and offering floral tribute to the goddess Durga. The fibre-glass idol has 12 hands as compared to the goddesses who has 10.








The idol has been draped in Mamata's signature white sari with a blue border. (Image: PTI)

The statue’s backdrop has been designed on the lines of that of West Bengal.

The pandal has been drawing a huge crowd, as it is one of the first to have made the chief minister into an idol.


Mamata inaugurates Durga Puja of 74 Pally in Kolkata. (Image: BCCL)

Dusshera is celebrated across the state of full fervour.