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What is the status of the Hindus in India itself? In Jammu & Kashmir not only the non-Muslims were brutally evicted from Kashmir and forced to live as refugees in their own country recently Shariat law was about to be implemented in the whole of the state. Is that mean the Government of India accept that Jammu & Kashmir is not part of India, which is secular according to its constitution, and religious laws cannot have any place? In West Bengal, we have the state is about to be taken over by the Muslim infiltrators from former East Pakistan and Bangladesh. The percentage of the Muslim population in West Bengal went up from 9 percent in 1947 to 26 percent in 2001, which cannot be explained by the normal growth of population in that area.

We have seen the dual standard of the state government towards the population. In Singur, Hindus were brutally evicted from their houses and lands to make room for the Tata Motor Company. However, in the proposed Haldiya Special Economic Zone where majority of the farmers are Muslims, with most of them illegal Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh and East Pakistan, the government has decided to halt the land acquisitions only because Jamait E Islam is against it. Thus it is very clear that Hindu farmers have no importance but Muslim farmers got to be protected.
That is not all. Here is another evidence of the brutality of the state government of West Bengal to the poor Hindus in West Bengal. The ghost of Islamic Fundamentalism has finally set itself in this part of Bengal too. The issue which was dormant and always needed a political shelter has finally come out with its sinister design.

This is the report given by Animitra Chakraborty, journalist & human rights activist, from West Bengal, which the Hindus in India and in the rest of the World should consider and think what is happening to their India, which is not for the Hindus anymore. On 26.01.07 in the village Banirdhal of police station of Kultali, Dist. South 24 Paragana, the Hindu boys for immersion the deity of Goddess Saraswati at about 8.30 pm along with the procession reached a crossing named Ghatihareania. But the moment the procession was moving by the side of a Mosque, stones, bricks and other lethal arsenals were thrown on the procession resulting in the breaking of two hands, crown, swan of the Holy Deity and lots of Hindu boys getting injured. It was followed by a deadly assault with number of Muslim anti socials fully armed, dragged three Hindu youth inside the mosque and tortured severely. When a local thug named Sahabuddin Molla was about to butcher them into pieces they somehow managed to flee.

As a reaction to this, about 1500 Hindus furiously started demonstrations in the Ghatihareania market area, preserving the broken Idol and drew the attention of the local Police camp accompanied by Officers-in-Charge of Kultali and Jayanagar, S.D.P.O. - Baruipur, C.I. – Canning and R.A.F.

Meanwhile armed Muslim mob also started assembling at the local Idgah Maidan being instructed by the local Masjid Committee, the other Masjids were also informed at the earliest, this was proved in the arrival of Muslims’ motorcycle brigades from the vicinity. Though the police barricaded the Hindus but due to cold wind when the gathering of the Hindus was slashed to a considerable level by 2.30 am, without a single provocation the R.A.F. and the rest of the Police Force suddenly pounded upon the assembled Hindus, minuscule in number by then and thrashing relentlessly threw them into the police vans. The Police Officers were also found castigating the Hindus and vilifying the Hindu deities. Altogether 38 Hindus were arrested, of which 10-12 were within 15 years.

One person arrested, named Bacchu Mondal was forced to write after custodial torture that he out of his own will had immersed the Holy Deity. After that the police itself did the act of immersion.

On the basis of complaints the police arrested only two Muslims. But the real culprits named – Abu Taleb Sheikh, Sahjahan Laskar, Abdulla Sheikh, Mohiudin Laskar, Dayud Joddar, Jamal Molla, Khalil Sheikh, Abu Siddik Sheikh, Abu Kalam Sheikh, Arif Sheikh- were not arrested.

Except 38 arrested ones, 11 others alleged for violence and violating law and order had been booked and through repeated raids their domestic lives have become next to miserable. It is suspected that the political highhandedness of the Ruling Front has made the Police act likewise.

But it will be wrong to ascertain that the police has not acted. Yes, they have arrested two Muslim young men but unfortunately one of them is proved innocent, as he was not present at the circumstance.

Against this vandalism, a demonstration was staged by the Hindus against the Local Administration. The agitation was a huge success with the attendance of a large number of Hindus on their own from all walks of life, even from remote corners of the area. The organizers were able to control he anger of the crowd. But while returning from the meeting two motor vans comprised of Hindu men and women were again attacked by the Muslims at a crossing called ‘Tarunir More’ of JayaNagar police station 16 passengers including 8 women were brutally beaten leading to their admission in a nearby hospital. But from this moment the Police & Local Administration appeared in a new manner. They acted in the most hostile manner and tried to disrupt the normal activities of the relatives of the admitted persons in all way that could be done.

Even eminent persons could not escape from the persecution. In the Deputation Team was Shri Raneswar Das, a reputed businessman of the local area and President, South 24 Paragana District of the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch was asked to be present at the Baruipur police station at 10.30 pm at night, by order of S.D.P.O. When refused the S.D.P.O. came on his own to Shri Das’ residence and thereby the Police dragged him, his ailing elder brother Shri Dinesh Das, a heart patient, Shri Dinesh Das’ sons and a local boy forcefully after an inhuman torture. Exploiting the terrified situation the Police made Shri Raneswar Das sign on a piece of paper containing 3-4 lines. Later he was released.

But still 34 Hindus are languishing behind the bars, innocent but victim of a heinous conspiracy, of which 12 are mere boys of age 12-13 years. As fresh reports are coming in, three more Hindu businessmen have been arrested at the Ghatihareania village. So, here lies the situation. These types of incidents are very common in Bangladesh where the administration is under the full gear of the Islamic Fundamentalism. But what about West Bengal?


Dr.Dipak Basu

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