Pro-Razakar Assembly in Kolkata indicates Peril
Kolkata
has changed incredibly by now and definitely for the worse. From the turbulent
60s and 70s when a considerable section of city’s youth dreamt of radical
social changes and had untimely deaths (as a result) it has turned out to be a
haven for Muslim radicals where they can proudly ascertain their supports for Islamists
in Bangladesh, censured severely there for their anti-humanity crimes during protracted
freedom struggle in 1971 and have already been convicted.
But
all these didn’t deter Muslim radicals in Bengal and their muscle-flexing
politics surfaced on March 30, 2013 when an assortment of Muslim groups
including All Bengal Minority Council, All Bengal Minority Youth Federation Madrassa
Students Union, Muslim Think Tank and All Bengal Imam Muazzin Association
organized a rally to pledge their support for the anti-Shahbag struggle or
simply Razakars, having hands stained with blood of millions of Hindus –
victims of myriad genocides masterminded by them on the whole.
There
was no such expectation (rally would be canceled) from them as well and as part
of their natural disposition, Islamists in Kolkata went on with their program
to express amity to Delwar Hossain Sayeede, his compatriots and votaries. While
slogans like “Islam in Danger in Bangladesh”
were heard, oaths that no Shahbag supporter would be allowed to inhabit this
soil of India,
they would be “beaten with broom-sticks” and with all other possible means also
barked highly. The solemn promise that Sheikh Hasina like Salman Rushdie and
Taslima Nasrin would not be allowed into Bengal was also cheered by the
gathering exhibiting once more that Kolkata has virtually changed – from the
metropolis of revolutionaries it has turned into a harbor of Muslim
radicals, with studied planning to inflict more damages on Hindus by and large.
What
both confounded and irked people in Kolkata was the muteness of the party in
government (TMC) and its premier opposition (CPM), refusing to miss any chance
ever to chew out Hindutva brigade. The essentiality of Muslim votes made them
act such – it is a well-known stratagem and doesn’t need any explanation. The
perennial Hindu lamentation that such political parties should not raise a hue
and cry whenever Hindus react to Islamic repressions on them, hence, anymore is
ineffectual.
What
these parties fail to ascertain is that Bengal
is also changing fast and Hindus are regaining their consciousness; outcome of
it is also being felt at many places in the state. And this assembly has fueled
the same and mounting confrontation only.
Are Hindus also
silent? They, taking fast developments into consideration it can be presumed,
are awaiting the day when the words of Mohammed Ali Jinnah spoken during his
presidential speech at the Muslim League convention on July 19, 1946, “ This day we bid goodbye to constitutional methods…. Now the
time has come for the Muslim Nation to resort to direct action. I am not
prepared to discuss ethics. We have a pistol and are in a position to use it,"
will be heard again.
Pro-Razakaar
assembly in Kolkata and failure of governance to contain it affronting Hindus decidedly
is pushing Bengal to a perilous future – a day
when war of words will be replaced by war in streets.
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