Fanatics plan to make Murshidabad and South 24 Parganas all Muslim districts
By Ranjit Roy
Muslim students and teachers had demanded their right to offer namaz inside school premises on Fridays. When refused, Muslims attacked and looted Hindu shops and houses and stabbed people only to terrorise Hindu community so that they are forced to flee from the two Muslim-dominated districts. This was exactly the strategy of Muslim League before the Partition.
Emboldened by unprecedented Muslim appeasements by three major political parties in West Bengal, the Congress, the Trinamool Congress and the CPM to get their votes during the last panchayat and parliamentary elections, fanatic Muslims are now planning to drive out Hindus from two Muslim dominated districts Murshidabad and South 24 Parganas. Worst communal riots have broken out in the two districts with the clear objective to make them all-Muslim districts. Interestingly, the issue that snowballed into major communal riots is identical in these two districts. Muslim students and teachers had demanded their right to offer namaz inside school premises on Fridays. When refused, Muslims attacked and looted Hindu shops and houses and stabbed people only to terrorise Hindu community so that they are forced to flee from the two Muslim dominated districts. This was exactly the strategy of Muslim League before the Partition.
The latest and possibly the worst kind of communal violence broke out in Murshidabad district’s Jhaubona and Trimohini areas under Beldanga Police station on July 10. Several Hindu villagers were stabbed and injured. Among the injured persons there were ten Policemen and an official in the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP). Two village markets and several Hindu houses were looted and burnt. Firing between police and Muslim rioters continued till wee hours of July 11. Curfew was imposed in the whole area and the BSF and the CRPF was deployed to help Police to maintain law and order. The entire troubled area was cordoned off by two companies of the BSF jawans since July 12. The administration showed a total blackout of information regarding casualty and the extent of damages done to Hindu establishments and houses. According to unconfirmed sources, altogether 12 people have died in communal violence and police firings.
Local residents feel that this may be an unique way of Muslims to welcom the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee’s announcement to set up a special campus of Aligarh Muslim University in Murshidabad. This Aligarh Muslim University had spearheaded the movement for creation of Pakistan in 1946-47.
Communal violence had started following the rejection of unreasonable demand of the local Muslims to offer namaz inside the local Jhaobona High School premises on all Fridays. Jhaubona High School is a higher secondary school under Nawda Police Station in Beldanga subdivision of Murshidabad district. Among total 1,000 students of this school, about 50 per cent are Muslims. For long they were demanding to offer Friday namaz inside the school. But school management and the Hindu students resisted it apprehending that it will create a virtual mosque inside the school. So, the furious Muslim students forced the school management to stop Saraswati puja in the school.
But that did not satisfy the Muslim students. They held secret meetings with local Congress leaders and some Muslim clerics and resolved to hold namaz on Fridays inside the school premises despite objections of the school management. On July 10, around 12 noon Muslim students assembled to offer prayers by force inside the school premises without permission from Head Master or school management. Hindu students protested and altercations started between two groups of students. Muslim students using their cell phones, spread rumours that Hindu students had attacked them in the school. Within 10-15 minutes, thousands of Muslims led by students of nearby Trimohini madrasa reached the school premises. They attacked the Hindu students and Hindu teachers and started beating them mercilessly. Hindu shops in the Trimohini market were burnt and looted. Many Hindu houses were ransacked and set on fire in Jhaubona and Garapara. Night curfew was imposed in the area following the incident of burning two buses and a matador van.
Major communal violence in West Bengal in 2009
A Hindu female devotee was molested by four Muslim youth while she was returning from a Siva temple in the Masterpara area in Asansol on January 9 morning. This led to a major communal riot.
Central part of Kolkata witnessed an unprecedented Muslim violence on February 8 following publication of an article on religion in English daily The Statesman.
A gang of Muslim goons molested a Hindu girl at Belgachia in north Kolkata and that led to communal clashes on April 21.
An identical communal violence had also broken out in the Joynagar area in South 24 Parganas on June 22. Here four Muslim teachers of West Gabberia High School had demanded that a large room of the school building should be allocated by the school management to offer namaz on all Fridays. When the management refused to accept their unreasonable demand, the four teachers immediately contacted local Muslim clerics and asked them to intervene. Within hours thousands of armed Muslim mob gathered outside the school premises and attacked Hindu students and teachers. They ransacked and damaged the school building and then they entered West Gabberia village and stabbed Hindu villagers. Joynagar in South 24 Parganas is a Muslim dominated subdivision where West Gabberia is a lone Hindu majority village.
No doubt, a deep rooted conspiracy has been hatched in these two Muslim majority districts bordering Bangladesh to make them exclusive Muslim districts so that the areas could be a part of Islamic Bangladesh.
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