Kolkata, May 23 -- The new government in West Bengal under Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has made a significant departure from the administrative style associated with former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by reducing the number of government holidays for Bakri Eid, officially known as Eid-al-Adha.
For the past 15 years, the previous Trinamool Congress government had followed the practice of granting two days of state government holidays for Eid celebrations.
Earlier this year, the former chief minister had announced holidays on May 26 and 27 for the festival, but in a fresh notification issued from Nabanna on Saturday, the new administration revised the schedule and declared only a single holiday on May 28, Thursday, for Bakri Eid.
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