Pressing puja
Coomi Kapoor, The Indian Express
March 16, 2008
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/284881.html

BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, who was recently in Kolkata was invited by the local Press Club to attend a Saraswati puja. Joshi was delighted to participate, but he could not resist pointing out the irony that, when as HRD minister in the Vajpayee government he had presided over a programme at Vigyan Bhavan where there was a short invocation to the goddess Saraswati, there was an uproar in Bengal. The Left Front had protested, claiming it was against our secular tradition. A Bengali scribe was at pains to make it clear that it was not the people of Bengal who had objected, but only the state education minister.