Overview

• Video from a south Kolkata pandal showed Mamata Banerjee taking a few dandiya steps during a Durga Puja inauguration a day after a cloudburst inundated the city.
• BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, called the act insensitive and blamed her government for 10–11 electrocution deaths reported after the heavy rains.
• TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said Kolkata experienced its first cloudburst with extraordinary rainfall and claimed civic agencies restored normalcy under the chief minister’s direction.
• At the Alipore Police Bodyguards Line inauguration, Banerjee praised the police for disaster response, urged people to ignore negativity, and named a new ambulance “Sebashree.”
• Banerjee continued a busy inauguration schedule, reportedly opening around 30 pandals that day, and announced plans for a world-class “Durgangan” project.