On 28 September 2017, for the first time in the country, a police complaint was lodged against the organizers of Durga Puja in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district for the depiction of the slaying of Mahishasur by Goddess Durga. Lokesh Sori had filed the complaint. Sori is a Dalit leader from Pankhajur in Kanker. He is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and enjoys wide support in the area, because of which the pressure started mounting on the police to take action on his complaint. But before the end of the day, the news had reached the office of the Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and the RSS headquarters in Delhi, and despite the pressure from the public, the Kanker police did not convert Sori’s complaint into an FIR.
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