The organizers of the Kolkata Beef Festival said that they received threats and could not ensure the safety of the attendees. Therefore, they had decided to cancel the event.
Recently, the Chief Minister of West Bengal had also chosen to skip the Prime Minister's swearing-in ceremony after BJP swept its way through its second term
Mamata Banerjee has dictated that there should not be any more victory march in the state as 2 weeks have passed since the announcement of the Lok Sabha election results.
The TMC has lost turf to BJP in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections where the saffron party emerged victorious on 18 of the total 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal
The cases of Rajeev Kumar and other senior officers who have been accused of corruption and involvement in scams paints a grim picture of the functioning of the TMC government in Bengal.