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Deganga’s Hindus abandoned by
own
October 21, 2010
6:56:43 PM
Kanchan Gupta
There was a
time, not that many decades ago, when Hindu grief in one part of the
country would not go unnoticed in its other parts. And so it was
that Hindus across north and central India, as it existed before the
demise of British colonial rule a year later, observed a ‘black’
Diwali in the autumn of 1946 to commiserate with their
co-religionists of Noakhali in Bengal. The infamous Noakhali riots,
which erupted on October 10 even before the last corpse had been
removed from the bustees of Calcutta which had burned for days
following Mohammed Ali Jinnah’s call for ‘Direct Action’ on August
16, witnessed what Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was to later describe
as a call to Hindus to leave or perish in the “flames of
fanaticism”. If Direct Action Day led to the ‘Great Calcutta
Killing’, the “organised fury of the Muslim mob” — as an enraged
member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly rudely but pithily put it
— was unsparing in Noakhali. Hindu homes were set on fire, Hindu
women were raped and girls abducted, Hindu men were murdered. It was
this unrestrained butchery and the Hindu grief in its wake that
moved a million Hindu hearts in central and north India and the
diyas remained unlit that Diwali.
Six-and-a-half decades
later, Hindus, it would seem, are no longer moved by the plight of
Hindus. The pseudo-secularism aggressively peddled by political
parties of all shades — even the BJP has begun to subscribe to the
bunkum made fashionable by the Left-liberal intelligentsia in the
hope of ridding itself of its ‘communal’ (read Hindu) tag — and the
divisive politics of caste identity have made Hindus inure to the
plight and sorrow of fellow Hindus. Nothing else explains the
indifference of Hindus towards their hapless co-religionists in
Deganga who, after suffering the “organised fury of the Muslim mob”,
led by Trinamool Congress MP Haji Nurul Islam, have been virtually
abandoned by both community and state to their fate. Starting
September 6, Haji Nurul Islam and his thugs, who met with resistance
when they tried to demolish the main Durga Mandap that has existed
for long, ran riot in Deganga block of West Bengal’s North 24
Parganas district, a short distance from Calcutta. Hindu homes were
ransacked, Hindu shops were set on fire, Hindu temples were
desecrated. All this happened while the district administration and
the police twiddled their thumbs. In West Bengal, the Marxists are
loath to take on the mullahs; for the Trinamool Congress, the
mullahs are powerful allies in Ms Mamata Banerjee’s quest for
power at any price.
Humiliated and simmering with rage,
abandoned and forsaken by their own in West Bengal and elsewhere,
the grieving Hindus of Deganga decided not to celebrate Durga Puja,
the most important festival in the Bengali Hindu calendar, this
year. The Durga Mandaps in Deganga wore a deserted look, the joyous
sound of dhaak, the traditional drum, was not heard, and an
overwhelming sense of mourning prevailed. Fear played spoil sport,
too: If the September riots were any indication, Muslim belligerence
was not to be taken lightly. Meanwhile, in a demonstration of crude
triumphalism, Haji Nurul Islam and his goons, with the full support
and blessings of the Trinamool Congress, have built and inaugurated
a new mosque right in the middle of Deganga market. The high-volume
and high-pitched azaan is more a taunt to the Hindus than a
call to prayers for the faithful.
The ghetto now rules
Deganga. The Hindus, reduced to an awful minority by Muslim
‘settlers’ who entered West Bengal illegally and settled in Deganga
as ‘citizens’ after being provided with ration cards by the local
committee of the CPI(M) that facilitated the inclusion of their
names in the voters list, can only grieve over their persecution
today. Ironically, the Hindus voted en bloc for the Left, as
did the illegal Bangladeshi immigrants-turned-Indian citizens. Then
the demography changed radically; the pampered minority became the
oppressive majority. That coincided with the waning of the Left
Front and the waxing of the Trinamool Congress which, mindful of
numbers, chose Muslims over Hindus in Deganga and strengthened its
hold by patronising the likes of Haji Nurul Islam. When Ms Mamata
Banerjee went around ‘inaugurating’ Durga Puja at various pandals in
Hindu majority constituencies of Kolkata this year, she did not
spare a thought for the Hindus of Deganga; she need not have because
their votes do not matter. That’s the power of demographic change,
forced and natural.
Nor does the Left Front, especially the
CPI(M), care about the Hindus of Deganga. The Marxists believe
survival depends not on alienating the mullahs but pandering
to them. Hence the recently announced communal quota; hence, too,
the West Bengal Government shamelessly looking the other way as
students of a tax-payer funded Islamic ‘university’ — really an
over-glorified madarsa — in Kolkata force their women
teachers to wear the burqa on campus. Then there is the media
which has blacked out the plight of Hindus in Deganga, striking an
ideological posture with which we are all too familiar. But it is
not Left-liberalism that has kept Deganga out of the columns of
newspapers and prime time bulletins of 24x7 news channels: It is the
fear of incurring the wrath of both Ms Mamata Banerjee and her
Marxist foes. The tragedy that has befallen the Hindus of Deganga is
similar to the stuff that once made Ripley’s ‘Believe It or Not’ a
popular inclusion in Sunday papers.
Postscript:
I have received the following e-mail from Hindu Samhati, the only
organisation which has been trying to draw the attention of media
and authorities to the fear that reigns in Deganga, admittedly
without any success so far:
“Minor Hindu girl abducted by
Muslim youth in Deganga in broad daylight on October 1.
Victim — Sangita Mandal; age 17 years, four months. Class 12
student. Daughter of Sukumar Mandal. Address: Village Purba
Changdana, PS Deganga.
Kidnapper — Naharul Islam; age 22.
Son of Abdul Rahim. Address: Village Doharia.
Sangita was
abducted in a Maruti Omni van at Ambika Nagar in front of
Polytechnic College.”
In a similar case of abduction and
forced nikah when the mother of the minor girl appealed for
justice to a division bench of Calcutta High Court earlier this
year, the honourable judges of secular India’s secular justice
system had cited sharia’h to legitimise the ‘marriage’,
insisting that the age of the girl was inconsequential. We live in
depressing times.
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COMMENTS BOARD ::
 dead either
way
By sg on 10/20/2010 7:07:34 PM
living
in india under the present system will become more difficult
as the years go on, as every government in every state bend
back wards to appease the so called minorities who cry for no
reason and claim to be oppressed when actually they are better
off their the hindu brothers. what nehru started today is such
a curse that it will take india down in the coming decades
with illegal bangladeshis crossing over into assam and west
bengal and then claiming to be indian but carry the same
jihadi culture.
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Why blame others?
Hindus are the culprits
By Nidhi on 10/18/2010
8:45:55 PM
Why is India obsessed with "secularism"
& why Hindus allow System to equate secularism to "freedom
of religion". Sooner or later atrocities, genocide and ethnic
cleansing will catch up to each & every Hindu in India.
Open ur kids textbooks and u will realize how anti-Hindu they
are.
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Excuses for Hindu
"meekness"
By Jalwa on 10/18/2010 8:37:25
PM
These are excuses of "meekness". Like every
other community in the world "PICK UP" arms and fight. Learn
from Leftists, Islamists and Christians of India they all have
"GUN" than who is stopping Hindus? Learn from Hindu genocide
and ethnic cleansing from Kashmir, did anyone care. NO. if
they had GUN with them the system would have
cared.
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Hindus have no self
esteem
By Ganesh on 10/18/2010 7:06:42
PM
With every passing day one realises that
non-violence which is the political euphemism for cowardice
was injected into the Hindu blood by the likes of Gandhi and
Nehru. From every problem our elite wants India to 'move on'
which is the modern definition for submission.
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Debganga - Hindu
Plight
By Bimal Banerjee on 10/18/2010 10:05:28
AM
Dear Hindus, Be secular and be tolerant! Go to
Gandhi, Nehru and Congress and they might possibly give you
some solace! After all why you Hindus were born ? To serve the
interest of the Muslims - cater them with your land, movable
and immovable property, wife, daughter and other female
members of your family! Have not all these been taught to you
by our great Congress leaders! You have given them Bangladesh,
now be ready to give them West Bengal too !
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Deganga
Hindus
By amarsingh on 10/18/2010 7:28:36
AM
What is secular MMS/ Sonia and secular
media-HT,TOI,Hindu close their secular eyes to Deganga a
secular Akhara.
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Why shall others
fight your battle?
By Vikram on 10/18/2010 3:48:17
AM
Does Bangla speaking Hindus in Waste Bengal care
for fellow Hindus, whether in Deganga or another muslim
majority areas? Communism virus and now Mamata Begam virus
paralysed them. Why Hindus from other parts of Bharat fight
your battle? Why not you learn and practice to fight your own
battle? You are not minority in Bengal, Hindus comprise about
70 percent of population.
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debganga
By
saleem on 10/18/2010 3:00:56 AM
The hindus in
Debganga should convert to Islam and spare themselves further
such trouble.
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Communal TC and
CPM
By R P Kundu on 10/18/2010 1:37:19
AM
Identify the real enemies of the people.
Trinalmul, CPM, Con are the real sponsors of Islamic
communalism in India. Brand these marchents of death as rabid
communal forces and send them to the dustbin of the history
whre they belong.
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Deganga, the start of
Next freedom movement
By Indian on 10/18/2010
1:30:57 AM
Let Deganga be the starting point for
the next freedom struggle to take our country back from the
Islamic fundamentalist communal sultanate of
Delhi.
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Deganga
By
sudhir mittal on 10/17/2010 11:02:56 PM
Dear Shri
Gupta, The story is heart wrenching. Another Nadir Shah. The
Hindu is the only one still in search of the promised land.
The Jews got theirs. The Europeans got all the continents. The
Arabs. The Bangladeshis, the Muslim Leaguists. The despair
would be enfolded in several layers of darkness but for for
your paper and intellectually honest journalism like yours.
Thank you from my heart. But this does not solve the problem
of the people of Debaganga.
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can we please chalk
out a strategy?
By Arihant on 10/17/2010 10:21:34
PM
Yes there is abuse of 'secularism' in India
today,yes,there are hindus whose thinking is so convoluted and
deliberately impotent who undermine the security of the Hindu
community.The point to remember is that these rascals,do not
attack Hindu society out of conviction,they merely take the
path of least resistance.Therefore,if we can start an
intelligent,deliberate counter movement and take on our
oppositon at mutliple levels in multiple fora,the rest ought
to fall in place.
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INDIA
ENCROACHED
By g.chandra mohan on 10/17/2010 9:59:16
PM
it is time we scrap article 370 reclaim the
valley kick the illegal immigrants along with Delhi sultanate
out of India
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plight of deganga
Hindus
By kiran on 10/17/2010 9:26:48
PM
India is supposed to be a secular country but in
the name of secularism Hindus are being oppressed.it`s high
time we Hindus fight for our rights even if it means taking
the path of violence.there is no need to obey the law which
does not protect you.
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As you reap so you
sow!!
By Sam on 10/17/2010 9:16:10 PM
I
do not doubt Kanchan Gupta's story. But I do not think it is
the job of hindus everywhere to take up this fight. Fact is as
the story mentions, these people voted for the CPI(M) for
decades. They joined Left bandhs agains the "communal BJP" and
election after election they sent an MP who spewed anti-hindu
venom in parliament. In my mind these people are not hindus
but Marxists. I view this as a Marxist versus Muslim fight.
Not a hindu versus muslim fight. As a hindu I do not
care.
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Deganga
By
Manikant on 10/17/2010 8:44:28 PM
what is more
distressing is the fact that L K Advani as the Union Home
Minister did not do anything for the Hindus. All the time he
was busy trying to be the Dy PM and then PM.
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Deganga
By
Manikant on 10/17/2010 8:41:32 PM
The Hindus are
orphaned by the secular constitution and the vote bank
politics.
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This is really
sad:(
By kiran on 10/17/2010 5:48:40
PM
Is this really happening in india!!!...i have
severe itching on my hands to slap mamata banerjee and to kill
this MP haji islam..alas i am not in india or else i would
have killed atleast the MP..This is highly unacceptable..pls
fellow indian hindus and if possible muslims pls unite against
the illegal immigration of bangladeshis...pls pls
pls
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Hide laziness &
cowardiness in the name of secularisam
By Shreshtha
on 10/17/2010 5:45:58 PM
People in our country have
found the easiest solution to hide their laziness and
cowardliness in the name of Secularism.
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Real Face of
Islam
By kumar on 10/17/2010 4:47:01
PM
Please consider the economy of Jihad and Islamic
terror. Please think how cheaply the Islamists run their
terror operations, how inexpensively they buy the lives of
young Jihadists to be sacrificed to commit un-imaginable
terror and murder. It costs them virtually next to nothing,
save for their training and the logistics, to recruit these
live terrorists, and despatch them on terror missions. Please
reflect on what motivates these terrorists to do what they
do.
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Send a fact finding
mission
By Ratan on 10/17/2010 4:10:53
PM
Dear Editor, there is a comment which doubts the
veracity of this depressing story. Why doesn't a party like
BJP send a fact finding mission there and publicize what
really is happening in Deganga? We have plumbed to such
numbing depths of self doubts that even such horrors against
Hindus are not believed!
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"the pampered
minority became the oppressive majority"
By Krishen
Kak on 10/17/2010 1:43:03 PM
And still we don't
learn.
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Hindus are not fools
to believe such useless stories!
By Purely Indian on
10/17/2010 1:33:38 PM
How do we believe that this
article is true and base on the information of author email's
!
Why you are degrading the Hindus ? remember hindus
are not fools to believe this kind of useless stories
?
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Hindus of DEGANGA
abandoned Kanchan Gupta
By Raj Shastri on 10/17/2010
1:03:20 PM
Islam is a violent Political movement
not a religion in the true sense of the word
religion.
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Stand up and be
counted
By Krishan on 10/17/2010 11:20:18
AM
If the blood of all Indians - Hindus in
particular - does not boil at this outrage; if they do not
come to the aid of this devastated girl and her helpless
parents; if they cannot shout "Hell, NO!" and bring the
rascals and their masters to their senses, then the worse is
yet to come. And deservedly so, to those who remain quiet.
Where are the Barin Ghosh, Ram Prasad Bismil, Chandra Shekhar
Azad and Bhagat Singh of today?
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Shameful
'Secularism'
By Anil Gupta on 10/17/2010 10:45:04
AM
Sir, The article is an eye opener. But
unfortunately, our pseudo-secular politicians will not be
moved. Even the BJP, of late, has abandoned the practice of
raising Hindu issues because it has failed to yield results in
this age of minority pampering. Media, both print as well as
electronic, are being controlled by anti Hindu forces. Pioneer
is the only exception.
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This is what will
happen to all of India
By Balwinder Singh Sodhi on
10/17/2010 9:16:00 AM
This is what happens to the
"Kafirs" when muslims become a majority. My own family saw it
in what is today's Pakistan. Overnight, muslim "neighbors"
became thirsty for Hindu-Sikh blood. The problem is you cannot
trust muslims because their religion itself exhorts them to
kill Kafirs and kidnap their women. This is written in Hadith
itself.
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Are we living in an
Islamic State
By KSV SUBRAMANIAN on 10/17/2010
8:01:10 AM
Why the secular state and the so called
secular fundamentalists who get orgasmic spells hearing
Gujarat, Kandhamal etc., silent. Are we living in an Islamic
state and secularism means anti-hinduism ?
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Deganga
blood
By C.JYOTI on 10/17/2010 7:07:08
AM
What about the petrol of change, the ever-alert
Mamata Banerjee? One does not recall any statement from her or
her party about the involvement of her own party members. But,
of course, the contagious disease of secularism afflicts
all!
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Talibanization of
India
By ravi kumar on 10/17/2010 5:11:48
AM
Shame on political parties who allow
talibanization of Indian society for votes ... Hindu
nationalist movements needs to rise .... but hindus are very
intelligently divided on the basis of caste and have become so
much sickular that these things doesn't matter them much
...
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Deganga’s Hindus
abandoned by own
By Vijay on 10/17/2010 4:28:45
AM
Kanchan,,tell me what is the solution to this?
We cannot allow this to happen..but tell us how?
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As You Sow So Shall
You Reap
By Amar on 10/17/2010 4:28:42
AM
the congress communist mamta all three want to
rip the society and this is the result of this, hindus are not
united and even if they try to unite parties like Congress do
not let it happen, at last this is the bread and butter of the
party, and now it is the time to get united, BJP is ideal and
if not BJP get united first and make pressure groups then
vote, and the public should seek answer from the local
"chamchas", in summary make them accountable. change the habit
"vote and forget".
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So called secular
Hindus are as good as walking dead
By Aam Admi on
10/17/2010 3:15:56 AM
So called secular Hindus are
are those who abhor Dharma and abide by primitive animal
thinking but no human values. These people are most dangerous
to Hindu society are responsible for the decay that has come
to bring the nation to current state of slavery and
treachery.
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Butchers of Kolkata
and Noakhali are back
By Debadrita Sen on 10/17/2010
2:57:28 AM
Amazing ... at least on Hindu in the
mainstream media had the honor and courage to highlight the
plight of young Hindu minor girls raped by the 'illegal
settlers' or whatever they are called. Of course, as the
author said, no body really cares about the Hindu votes - as
only the Muslim votes are deciding. Sadly, only the Hindus are
to be blamed.
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Another freedom
movement?
By apatel on 10/16/2010 8:04:18
PM
It appears that the freedom movement merely
rolled back the British Empire to the Delhi Sultanate! Do we
need another freedom movement to liberate the Indian masses
i.e the
Hindus?
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