Calcutta residents given tax break for painting homes in state chief's favourite colours

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This is the silliest thing I have read in a long time.

Calcutta residents given tax break for painting homes in state chief's favourite colours - Telegraph
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Meanwhile, local conservationists opposed the new colour scheme on the grounds that it would alter Calcutta’s ‘colonial flavour’.

Calcutta, which became the East India Company’s principal trading centre in the late 17th century before serving as India’s capital until 1911, contains many grand colonial-era buildings which experts believe should not be painted over.


Banerjee, who was elected state chief minister in 2011 after defeating the Communist Party government that had been in power for 34 years, is keen to obliterate all signs of his Left-wing predecessors, who had painted some buildings and monuments red during their extended tenure in office.

“Banerjee is keen on stamping her own colour scheme on the city for perpetuity”, Calcutta resident Suhinder Kaur said.

WTF? Does it mean it would alter the Calcuttas "COLONIAL FLAVOUR"?
British left india 60+ years ago, but these people still want to retain Colonial flavour? what is a colonial flavour and wtf is wrong with these people?

The left painted buildings RED as it was the colour of Communists, what did they expect Mamata would do?