Mamata Banerjee Invites PM Modi To Visit Ganga Sagar Mela Despite Differences

Mamata Banerjee Invites PM Modi To Visit Ganga Sagar Mela Despite Differences

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Kolkata: On Thursday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kindly invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi to attend the Ganga Sagar Mela, an annual event held during Makar Sankranti, despite their political differences. She wrote a letter to the prime minister highlighting the event's distinctiveness and pleading for it to be recognized as a 'National Fair.'Special Importance Of The Ganga Sagar MelaSecond only to the Kumbh Mela, Mamata emphasized that the Ganga Sagar Mela is one of the "largest spiritual human congregations" in the world. She spoke of the event's unparalleled geographic grandeur, occurring at the meeting point of the Bay of Bengal and the powerful Ganga River. The Mela is hosted on Sagar Island, which is close by.