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   Union Home Minister Amit Shah today visited Dakshineswar temple on the second day of his two-day visit to West Bengal. On Thursday, Shah had lunch at the house of a tribal BJP worker in Chaturdihi village in Bankura district. Maintaining that Bengal is the land of luminaries such as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, Shah said the state once used to be the centre of spiritual awakening in the entire country. Let us take a look at some of the images:

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   At Dakshineswar temple, BJP Mahila Morcha president Agnimitra Paul puts tilak on Amit Shah's forehead. (Image: Twitter/Amit Shah)

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   Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Dakshineswar Kali Temple, in Kolkata. (PTI Photo)

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   Amit Shah with other BJP leaders at the sanctum sanctorum of the centuries-old shrine, where he offered puja to the goddess. (Image: Twitter/Amit Shah)

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   During his visit to the temple, Shah said that there was a need to restore West Bengal's "lost glory". (PTI Photo)

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   "However, the politics of ‘tustikaran’ (appeasement) has hurt this glorious tradition of Bengal," Shah told the crowd. (PTI Photo)

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   It was a vegetarian platter of Bengali delicacies, served on a plate with a banana leaf on it. (Image: Twitter/Amit Shah)

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   Sitting on the floor of Bibhishan Hansda's house in Bankura, Shah had rice, roti, dal, 'patol bhaja' (pointed gourd fry), 'shukto' (mixed veg stew which is slightly bitter), 'alu-posto' (potato cooked in poppy seed paste), and 'papad'. (Image: Twitter/Amit Shah)

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   Union Home Minister Amit Shah poses for photographs with members of a tribal community, during his two-day visit to West Bengal, in Bankura district. (PTI Photo)

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    Bankura, dominated by tribal and backward communities, is one of the several districts where the BJP had made deep inroads in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It bagged both the parliamentary seats in the district. (Image: Twitter/Amit Shah)