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Women have a LOT more freedom in West Bengal than in Hindi belt...you would see women renting houses on their own inn Bengal..things like that are unthinkable in the Hindi belt...there are tens of thousands of young women from the North East and Nepal who live on their own as roommates in Kolkata..this sort of thing is completely unthinkable in the Hindi belt....Bengalis (even Hindus) were apprehensive that Hindi belt style of religious fundamentalism and misogyny will enter Bengal with the triumph of BJP..............Also slow enforcement of vegetarianism or slow stigmatization of non-vegetarianism is also many Bengali's minds ................and one more thing the way BJP stalwarts like Yogi Adityanath frame their pro-women ideology is very very unsavoury..They say we should see the dignity of our mothers ,sisters, daughters is protected.....this sort of language may elicit consternation in many quarters in Bengal....A woman doesnot need to be someone's mother, daughter or sister to be worthy of her rights and protection from the State...
Also Muslim posters from other parts of India fail to recognize Hindu-Muslim relations in Bengal ....A Muslim in Bengal is Bengali first and then a Muslim in the eyes of the Hindu majority...
There is a huge overlap in culture between Bengali Muslims and Hindus for primarily two reasons...Muslims in Bengal use Bengali language and script and Muslim women in Bengal also wear saree...
Muslims in other states of India set themselves apart by using Perso-Arabic script of Urdu....This makes them look like someone with different ethnicity rather than someone with different religion
One thing I must add that BJP has managed to resist from bringing in Hindi belt culture in Assam even after dominating the state...Gender relations are also much better in Assam than in Hindi Belt...on par or perhaps even better than Bengal
BJP tried to boost its image in Bengal by roping in glamorous female fashion designers as their electoral candidates...this has payed off
Durga Puja has been till now largely a Bengali ethnic festival....BJP has tried to play up the religious aspect of Durga Puja this time around
It used to be like that as far as I know but things are changing fast . Now a days many women do not wear sarees rather they prefer salwar kameez and in few instances burqa and hizab is also getting quite popular. As well as though muslims used to celebrate pujas now a days many are refraining from it due to widespread availability of lectures by muslims clerics and as a result they are craving out a separate identity base which is not based upon hindu culture like what you can see in Bangladesh where they crave out a distinct identity without mixing into hindu culture .