The Indian National Congress didn’t seem to realize what it was doing when it threw out Mamata Banerjee some years ago. It was she who virtually represented Congress in the state, and so when she was thrown out instead of being appointed the Pradesh congress president, in a way the Congress had thrown out a part of itself too. And to the common man, she represented the fight against left front mindlessness better than congress.
The CPM rightfully can claim the rest of the credit for Mamata’s rise. In 1998 TMC won 7 LS seats. In 99 it inched up to 8. Mamata joined Vajpayee led NDA. Her supporters among Muslims didn’t think much of that. They were quasi-literate, illiterate rural folks. They didn’t almost know something called the RSS existed. Then Gujarat’2002 happened. They expected Mamata to take a tough stand and part ways with the NDA. She did not. Come 2004 and they registered their disapproval. TMC managed to send a lone MP to parliament.
The single most important factor in this rout was that Muslims deserted her overwhelmingly. She perhaps had not expected such a vehement reaction. But the warnings she used to receive came true. And that warning had come from Kolkata’s non-Bangla speaking Muslim leaders. In her anxiety to regain her lost ground, she started playing into their hands. Just then other political developments helped her. Nandigram and Singur. Political pundits wrote obituaries for her on these developments. But their insight was as good as their prophecy. Mamata knew the public psyche far better than them. She knew marginal farmers were bursting with anger because of coercive acquisition of their multi-crop land by the Left govt, jeopardizing their livelihood, their daily bread. Butter was beyond their dreams, incidentally. So awful their lot.
The two episodes swelled Mamata’s ranks in a very different way. The ‘thangare bahini’: ‘the beating brigade’ of CPM changed loyalty and sided with her. Nothing could have been more devastating to the CPM than this. Their switching camps emboldened the common people too to come out against the CPM in the open.
Come 2011 and West Bengal was flush with ‘ma mati manush,’ and Mamata strode regally up the stairs of Writers’ Building to the very chamber from where she was dragged out by her hair by a Superintendent of Police on the shocking orders of none other than Jyoti Basu himself.
On the flipside but her ‘Muslim’ advisors too went into Writers’ Building with cabinet berth. And they started extracting their pound of flesh in exchange of a ‘perceived’ turn-around of Muslim votes, ‘engineered’ by Kolkata’s Hindi/Urdu speaking Muslims. Anxious to retain their loyalty, she kept giving in all the time . Mamata Banerjee became ‘mamata-z banoo-ji’. So came the sop in form of payment to the muezzins that Kolkata HC scotched later. Then came the ‘bicycle’ circus for the ‘poor Muslim’ school girls. Then came up some road signs in Park Circus in Kolkata with Urdu preceding Bengali.
But such misplaced appeasement boomeranged. Payments to muezzins were something untenable constitutionally. She did not know that. Even Islamic practice does not allow muezzins to take payment from un-Islamic state coffer ! So even muezzins did not think much of the gesture. The bicycle bonanza: it was trumpeted more like a gift to Muslims rather than to a poorer segment of people. So then when there are poor people outside of Muslim fold as well, whose little girls too dream of pedaling their way to the school, such ‘Muslim-targeting,’ made many poorer Hindus disenchanted with Didi’s government.
In the process the Hindu communal forces gained credibility. Let us give credit where it is due. During the CPM rule, organizations like RSS and JIH had no takers. Since Mamata became ‘Mamata-z,’ JIH cozied up to her. They organized a rally in support of razakars of Bangladesh more to impress Mamata with their political muscle than show solidarity with the razakars. They brought in cadres from all over India as in West Bengal they hardly have strength worth showing. And so the RSS started getting a rather fertile arable mind space among latent Hindu communal elements. During the CPM days even the displaced people of 1947 & 71 were not all necessarily hostile to Muslims. In fact they formed a major cadre base of CPM alongside Muslims. But Mamata’s pro-Muslim antics irked the refugees They had already moved away from CPM, disgruntled. Now they were disillusioned with the new avatar of Mamata. RSS could not have asked for more. RSS pracharaks, who were just not visible in Left front days, are devoting 25 hours a day to their machinations, spreading lies, poisoning their minds and particularly reanimating the long forgotten scars of the refugee immigrants. And those displaced in 1971 alone number over 10 million. Predictably the RSS has sprouted a number of shakhas in West Bengal, with regular attendance.
Going by my own reading, a lions’ share of these refugees and their progeny either want revenge or at the very least won’t care much if Muslims are butchered here. For them it will be an affordable collateral damage for ‘development’. ‘Those who’ve caused untold misery in Pakistan and Bangla Desh to Hindus’ are pretty much dispensable.
Organization like Hindu Samhati came out of nowhere almost in no time. This was carved out of RSS cadre base and is as vitriolic as VHP. They are trying to impart a communal flavor to any local litigation relating to land, or to any issue for that matter. And they have been successful too on numerous occasions.
Mamata-z Banoo-ji is proving a positive catalyst in this polarization process. This is more perceptible in the districts adjoining the Bangladesh border. Hindus who were ‘moderately’ communal, thanks to Left’s no-nonsense approach, and who kept their own counsel, have now found a platform to give full vent to their dormant spleen.
BJP had so far been a non-entity in West Bengal politics. Courtesy CPM. No more so. Courtesy Mamata Banerjee. I will not be surprised if the BJP betters all its previous performances in 2014. Though that is not likely to make any impact as of now, it is a bad omen for West Bengal politics if Mamata does not return to sense. Or people throw her out. The problem is that people will not forget and forgive CPM any time soon. The going is certainly not good per se.
In the last lap, the political temperature has suddenly shot up. Mamata and Modi have been hurling nasty jibes at each other, but one wonders whether it is all real.
Mamata’s ‘architect of riot’ or her lieutenant Derek O’Brien’s ‘butcher of Gujarat’ might have sounded more convincing had she not kept quiet during the riots themselves. Besides it is the misplaced priorities of her government that have led to greater communalization of the polity as mentioned earlier.
Mamata should have got it that she could just give Modi’s communal diatribe a mute response altogether without losing any Muslim votes, and that would have soothed some nerves irritated because of her stole-coiffure Mamata-z avatar. But she did not. And so BJP should thank Mamata.
Modi’s assurance in Assam to ‘Bangldeshi Hindus’ and his warning to ‘Bangldeshi encrochers’ in Hooghly are typical chessboard movements of the sangh parivaar.
Never forget Rajnath Singh wonders aloud simultaneously how the population of ‘a particular’ community could increase so much. The message is not really all that cryptic.
Very good analysis. Few more things need to be explored. In India, so many communities, religions are there for over 1000 years. How could the bond between common people be so volatile that the fanatics, Hindus or Muslims, are able to create such an atmosphere of mutual hatred. Worlds strongest powers could not separate the Germans, then why the same feelings are absent in the mind of Bengalis, Indians. Is it only religion?
Rant, rant and more rant! Well articulated tattletale at best. 🙂
INDIA WILL DISINTEGRATE LIKE USSR BEFORE 2020:
LOOK AT THE DESTINY OF BHARAT MATA — They drink Gomuthra and leave their entire Gomatha for Muslims and Christians to eat — They scream Bharat Mata while desperately standing for jobs and immigration under hot sun in front of Muslim and Christian nations. Their leaders loot the nation and keep their wealth in the safe hands of Jesus in Swiss banks. They gave Buddha to China and China is eating Arunachal Pradesh.
They forced Pakistan to invent nukes which has brought KAFIRS down to their knees. They created Bangladesh free of cost and now crying Bangladesh is eating Assam. All SAARC nations have abandoned India and joined hands with China.
They depend upon brave Sikh warriors to protect their nation but they are finalizing the KHALISTAN constitution — They brag about 1.7 million strong Hindu army, nukes and missiles but watching like impotents while Buddhist Srilanka rapes and kills 4 million Tamil Hindus. Now 8 crore Tamils have lost faith in the Indian federation and Tamil Nadu is getting ready to create TAMIL NATION.
Naxals are running a nation within a nation and killing Indian police and Jawans every day. — They are friends of America but Jesus has swallowed 6 NE states — Now Talibans are burying US troops in Afghan and getting ready to do a BIG HINDU KUSH and liberate Kashmir.
Even for silly problems, they run to USA and scream “help, help” like impotents — 600 million Dalits are getting ready to break away from the yoke of Varna Dharm and embrace Islam en masse.
Now they are pushing 400 MILLION Muslims to create PAKISTAN-2 —– WHO CAN EDUCATE THESE STUPID KAFIRS?
எங்கே போனாலும் ஜாதி, எதற்கெடுத்தாலும் ஜாதி.
ஜாதி ஓட்டு வங்கியின் அடிப்படையில்தான் அரசியல் கட்சிகள் வேட்பாளரை நிறுத்துகின்றன. தலித் அம்பேத்கர் எழுதிய இந்திய அரசியல் சாசன சட்டம் ஜாதி அடிப்படையில் எழுதப்பட்டது – இட ஒதுக்கீடு ஜாதி அடிப்படையில் அமைந்தது – 130 கோடி மக்களின் தலைவிதியை முடிவு செய்வது ஜாதியும் மதமும்தான்.
செக்யூலரிசம் எனும் வார்த்தைக்கு இன்று வரை சட்டபூர்வமான விளக்கம் தரப்படவில்லை. அனைத்து மதத்தையும் ஏற்பதா நிராகரிப்பதா என்பது எந்த சட்டத்துக்கும் தெரியாது. செக்யூலரிசம் என்பது சுத்த தேவடியாத்தனமென்று அருண் ஷோரி சொன்னது நூற்றுக்கு நூறு சரி.
இன்று இட ஒதுக்கிட்டில் அவனவன் ஜாதி சான்றிதழ் வைத்துக்கொண்டு உனக்கு ஆப்படிக்கிறான். உன்னிடம் ஜாதி சான்றிதழ் இருக்கிறதா? இந்த நாட்டில் இனி பிழைக்க முடியாதென்று அமெரிக்காவுக்கும் அரேபியாவுக்கும் ஓடுகிறாய். அப்புறமென்ன செக்யுலரிசம் வாழுது?.
செக்யூலரிசம் என்று சொல்லிக் கொண்டு ஆபிசில் ஆயுத பூஜை செய்யாதே — நான் முஸ்லிம் என்று சொல்லி தலை நிமிர்ந்து நிற்கிறேன் — நீயும் ஹிந்து என்று சொல், கர்வங் கொள்.
நீ உண்மையான ஹிந்துவாக பஞ்சகச்சம் கட்டிக்கொண்டு தலையில் குடுமியுடன் ஆபிசுக்கு வா. நான் வெள்ளை லுங்கி கட்டிக் கொண்டு தாடி தொப்பியுடன் வருகிறேன். நீ உனது வேதமந்திரத்தை ஓதி சாஸ்திர சம்பிரதாயங்களை கடைப்பிடி. நான் திருக்குரான் ஓதி நமாஸ் செய்ய எந்த தடையும் இராது. உனக்கு உன் வழி, எனக்கு என் வழி.
janab nanjunda moorthy/brahma puhiran , you want to divide india. Sonia will fulfill your wishes.
India will break as USSR.
Yes – The root cause of all evils haunting India is Religion and Caste — Disintegration on the basis of religion and major caste groups will significantly reduce these evils and bring better life for 1.3 billion Indians within 10 years.
Better still, TAMIL DESAM should become a federal state of China and set an example for other South Indian states to follow — This will protect the rivers of TD and culminate into a prosperous DRAVIDA NADU as envisioned by Thanthai Periyar.
If you still believe that India can bring better life for 1.3 billion people in the next 10 years, please tell me:
1. How can you eliminate Hindu-Muslim hatred, Jihadism and Hindutva terrorism?
2. How can you eliminate hatred and bring equality between High caste Hinuds and Dalits?
3. In case India gets divided into “TAMIL NATION, KASHMIR, KHALISTAN, NAXALISTAN, DALITISTAN, BRAHMANASTAN, ARYAVARTHA, DRAVIDA NADU, JESUSTAN AND ISLAMISTAN”, which nation will you choose?.
You will see how these issues raised by you are resolved one by one seamlessly – the way Gujarat is peaceful now! People in a way are like children and different. Some people understand decent approaches while others need a hard landing. The next Govt will tacitly bring in patriotism and ”country first’ approaches as necessary attributes in citizens in order to weed out fringe elements who can not hold country first. In fact, reciting ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ & ‘Vandemataram’ will be thrust upon people as a stress test to pass to clearly differentiate people who are for this country and who are against it. I think these steps will make it unbearable for elements who can thrive only in certain conditions, to live in this country any longer and they will have to find a better place to live, over time.
As regards castes, India has lived with the system for centuries and so we can expect people to find a rythem as to how to integrate this with the developments in this millennium.
What we need is discipline and self pride and empowerment. We should get rid of internal contradictions that would pave the way for faster growth. With democracy & peace, India doesn’t carry the burden of a time bomb like China with so many suppression and bottled up feelings among its population. So growth when happens will be more stable in India which can and will surpass China in a short time. For this what we need is unity, pride and dedication. Those who don’t subscribe to this will be invited to go out as a logical fall out because they will keep poisoning the whole system.
Division of country might happen only if the leadership does not adopt an inclusive development approach, If the leadership is seen as fair & kind to all regions, the inclination for separation would die out..
This article purely says in so many words that, muslims can remain communal in the name of secularism and Hindus are communal however secular they are!!!
Hindu refugees can not look for olitical voice, but Muslim encrochers can do that in the name of secularism.
I agree with arun shorie, ‘Secularism’ is the prostitued word not only in words, but in sense and application too
Thanks for your thoughtful analysis of the present political situation in Bengal. though I dont agree fully with you… But there are few questions remain unanswered… R not the other political parties like INC equally communal when they depend on the muslim vote bank and try to project them as secular? If Hindus call them Hindu what’s wrong in it? Being majority by faith in a country is a crime? If the muslim population of this country understands they are being used in the name of vote why dont they protest? R not those people who say secularism is a lie actually threatens secularism? Since my childhood I have been brought up in an environment where we were all bengalis n indians never mattered religion. Being a Hindu brahmin I enjoy the festivals of all religion. I have got my Idi on Id, my share of yule log n ginger bread in christmas n my freinds who r from different religions had bhog n prasad in our house during Sraswati puja n Durga puja…So please lets us stay like that… I have muslim members in my family by way of marriage as well. so. Yes sometimes we dont think those hindi speaking guys no matter which religion they belong as our well wishers. They dont understand our Bengali sentiment. And yes we r communist and proud to be communist and we r proud Bengalis.
Message for Muslims —- HINDUS TAUGHT AHIMSA, GAVE PEACE AND PROSPERITY FOR MUSLIMS:
Just take a look around the Muslim world, you will see most of them are boiling and the rest are restless. Needless to talk about the spectacular collapse of Pakistan and there is a greater respect and admiration for India in the eyes of every educated Pakistani who is treated as an unwanted visitor in every airport for the fault of being born as a Pakistani citizen.
India has world’s largest Muslim population of around 400 MILLION. An Indian Muslim gets a welcome smile wherever he goes because his Indian identity stands out more than his Muslim identity. Who won this respect for India worldwide?. Honestly, the entire credit goes to Hindus, especially Brahmins, who have established their knowledge power in all spheres of science and technology and have made India proud wherever they went.
If you look at the Gulf countries, wherever Hindu expatriate population is more than 30% of the total population, that country is peaceful and not affected by the unrest in the Muslim world. If this ratio is reduced, that country’s economy and peace will collapse for sure. What’s that invisible secret power of Hindus which spreads peace and prosperity among Muslims?.
Islam came to liberate and refine the suppressed class, low castes, untouchables, slaves, illiterates and barbarians. Islam is an anti-thesis to corrupt intellectuals and the ruling class which is the fountain head of greed, slavery, oppression, injustice and social evils.
Muslim world can not produce knowledge because the intellectual class is missing in the Muslim population. To produce knowledge, someone should give knowledge. Blind can not lead the blind. The most knowledgeable people and intellectual class in human history is Brahmins. To move out of darkness and see the light, all Muslim nations should make an agreement with India and outsource their schools, universities and ministry of education exclusively to the Brahmin community.
Brahmin teachers alone can bring education, humility and discipline in the Muslim world. In fact, Allah created Prophet Muhammed(pbuh) himself in the tribe of idol worshiping Qurayshi Brahmins and ordered him to abolish idol worship. He was protected for 42 years by his uncle Abu Talib, a powerful Brahmin who never accepted Islam.
Definitely Prophet(pbuh) knew Hinduism much better than any Hindu. Islam won’t work without Dharm. Islam without Dharm is like a nuclear reactor without coolent which will melt out of it’s own excess heat.
Unchallenged Islam will wakeup the dormant barbaric genes and push it’s followers towards Talibanism. The only force which can stop Talibanism is Hinduism. — Hara Hara Mahadeva – Alhamdulillah.
ISLAM WILL SWALLOW HINDUSTAN:
Islam came to abolish idol worship. When Islam came to India 1000 years back, there was NOT a single Muslim. All were Kafirs. Then many Kafirs abandoned their faith and embraced Islam. The first people to embrace Islam en masse were Kashmiri Brahmin Pundits.
In 1947, the Kafirs who became Musalmans waged Jihad on Kafirs and created Pakistan — The funny part is, despite dividing East Pakistan, these Kafirs again created free of cost another Jihadi nation called Bangladesh.
Above all, millions of Kafirs are abandoning their HINDU nation and running to Muslim nations to work as toilet cleaners because Bharat Mata can NOT feed 1.3 billion population. Nobody wants to go back and one day they will embrace Islam.
So, Islam is creating enemies of Kafirs from Kafirs and using them to do JIHAD and create PAKISTANS — Now tell me, how can you stop Islam from swallowing Hindustan?.
KAFIRS HAVE PROVED BEYOND ANY DOUBT, JINNAH IS RIGHT:
We can scream secularism on top of our head but 400 MILLION Indian Muslims are loosing faith on India and believe that Kafirs and Muslims can NOT live together.
LAHORE DECLARATION OF JINNAH SHAEB, March 23, 1940:
“Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature. They neither inter-marry nor inter-dine and, indeed, they belong to two different civilizations that are based mainly on conflicting ideas and conceptions.
Their concepts on life and of life are different. It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes. Very often the hero of one is a foe of the other, and likewise, their victories and defeats overlap.
To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state”
TIME FOR PAKISTAN-2.
WHY INDIAN MUSLIMS DID NOT QUIT INDIA AND MIGRATE TO PAKISTAN IN 1947?:
Majority Hindus feel that Muslims are a national burden and India could have become a far better nation, even surpassng China, had they kicked Muslims out of India in 1947 — In fact, majority Muslims also feel that creation of Pakistan is 100% justified and wonder why Jinnah left them alone to suffer at the hands of KAFIRS?.
In 1947, 40% of Muslim population was living in Pakistan(including Bangladesh) and 60% was spread across India from Delhi to Kanyakumari —- So, it was impossible to take away the land share of this 60% population along with Pakistan and hence Jinnah moved on with the creation of a homeland for 40% Muslims.
Today, the combined population of Pakistan and Bangladesh is 400 MILLION — Now use your own logic and determine if 40% of population could become 400 million, what 60% would have become?.
We have had enough since 1947 and let’s admit that KAFIRS and MUSLIMS can NOT live together any more — A FINAL KAFIR MUSLIMS war is inevitable — Today 1/3rd of India belongs to 400+ million Indian Muslims — Is it possible to cut 1/3rd of India and create PAKISTAN-2?.
Many ethnic nationalist movements like KASHMIRIS, TAMILS, KHALISTANIS, DALITS, NAXALS, and DRAVIDANS are gaining ground swell and desperately waiting for an opportunity to break away from this FILTHY SICK Indian federation — If Muslims kick Bharat Mata, India will disintegrate into TAMIL NATION, KASHMIR, KHALISTAN, DALITISTAN, BRAHMANASTAN, ARYAVARTHA, DRAVIDA NADU AND ISLAMISTAN.
Let Tamils, Sikhs, Dalits, Dravidans, Aryans, Brahmins and Muslims live happily in their own nation — Why NOT?
SECULARISM IS A LIE — COMMUNALISM IS INTEGRAL PART OF OUR CONSTITUTION:
Reservation quota is based upon caste and religion — Every party nominates it’s candidates based upon his/her caste and religious vote bank — IS THIS NOT COMMUNALISM?.
You are Hindu, i am Muslim, you are Shudra, I am Brahmin, you are low caste, i am high caste” — This is our identity and root cause of communalism — If we deny this, we are hypocrites.
Let there be separate HINDU/MUSLIM RESERVED CONSTITUENCIES proportionate to their population, as proposed by Jinnah Saheb before partition — Nehru’s refusal to accept this solution lead to the creation of PAKISTAN — Let Hindus NOT repeat this mistake again — Let Muslims vote for Muslims and Hindus vote for Hindus.
YOU BE A PROUD HINDU, I WILL BE A PROUD MUSLIM —- You follow your way, i will follow my way.
Communalism is the answer for peaceful coexistence — KICK OUT SECULARISM.
WHY MUSLIMS WILL NEVER GET ANY POLIICAL SALVATION IN HINDU MAJORITY INDIA?:
In 1947, 40% of Muslim population was living in Pakistan(including Bangladesh) and 60% was spread across India from Delhi to Kanyakumari —- So, it was impossible to take away the land share of this 60% population along with Pakistan and hence Jinnah moved on with the creation of a homeland for 40% Muslims.
Today, the combined population of Pakistan and Bangladesh is 400 million — Now use your own logic and determine if 40% of population could become 400 million, what 60% would have become?.
On this basis, 30% of Indian Muslim population must be able to send atleast 150 Muslim MPs to a parliament of 547 MPs — As Muslim majority constituencies are either cunningly clubbed together with Dalit reserved constituencies or split in between Hindu majority constituencies, Muslims can NOT send more than 30 handpicked powerless political stooges of Hindu political parties.
In short, Muslims will NEVER get any political salvation in Hindu majority India — In fact, Jinnah was forced to create Pakistan exactly for this reason and 400 MILLION MUSLIMS WILL ALSO BE FORCED TO CREATE PAKISTAN-2.
More than MB, the muslim community should realize the kind of danger it is placing itself in because of this short-sighted politics. Why is the narrative always on the machinations of the secular/Hindutva forcesand the muslims as unwitting victims of the same when they are in fact a very powerful political force who can control their destiny if they play sensible and moderate politics.