Today's Witness Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 09:35 PM, ( Updated at 11:30 AM Daily)
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Written By: WITC Desk New Delhi Monday, 15 December, 2025 01:30:PM
In West Bengal, two prominent political parties are trying to prepare the ground for the next year's assembly elections. The most interesting part of the strategy by both parties is not development but spiritual mania and cultural heritage, food habits source says. The BJP campaign so far is based on the high percentage presence of Rohingya, Muslims throughout the state, likely to sideline the Hindus of the state, a source says. Whereas the TMC videos propagate a society of hungry people forced to eat vegetarian food, without a fish source, they say. Fish for the people of the state are not only a food but also a symbol of culture and a means of survival, according to the source. By emphasising a society deprived of fish and compelled to rely on vegetarian foods, the TMC aims to suggest that the BJP intends to alter the state's cultural heritage—something that deeply concerns the proud Bengali community source says.