1946 Direct Action of Jinnah Re-Enacted - Part 2

V. Sundaram

Minority Hindus in certain pockets of Muslim majority Murshidabad District are under a siege today. The trouble started on July 10, 2009 in Beldanga Sub Division of that District when certain criminal Muslim elements let loose unprovoked violence against the Hindus.



Tapan kumar ghosh, National convenor, Hindu Samhati

Many Hindus were killed and battered. Their shops were burnt. Women were molested. Till yesterday evening an embargo was placed on media personnel visiting the riot torn area for reporting and news coverage.

In these columns yesterday (Please see Part 1 of this article below) I had mentioned that the anti-Hindu CPI(M) Government in West Bengal today is re-enacting in Murshidabad District the same macabre communal drama of DIRECT ACTION of the evil duo M/s Mohammad Ali Jinnah and H.S Suhravardy — I am referring to the carnage of Hindus in Calcutta City which took place on August 16, 1946. The stage for the gruesome Calcutta killing was set by the Premier of Bengal H.S Suhravardy who masterminded the Hindu Genocide. The Government of Bengal remained silent for two days and watched the mass killing of Hindus with a Nero-like impassivity. The British Governor F Burrows, sat like a marble statue in his Chambers, ‘seeing no evil’ and ‘hearing no evil’. Burrows and Suhravardy were acting in criminal collusion. When the Sikhs of Calcutta were provoked to come out into the streets with their flashing swords to give protection to their defenceless and abandoned Hindu brethren, the tide of killings took a different turn. With the Sikhs and the Hindus coming together in self-defence against the Islamic marauders the tide was turned with equal fury against the murderous Muslim bullies. The Governor and the Prime Minister, seeing that the Muslims were now at the receiving end, now felt the ‘supreme call of duty’ and felt constrained to call the Army to quell the riots.

The number of men, women and children slaughtered on the streets of Calcutta City was over 10,000 and the seriously maimed and injured 15,000 and those rendered utterly penniless and homeless 100,000. A British correspondent of Statesman, Kim Khristen, wrote: ‘I have a stomach made strong by the experience of war, but the war was never like this. This is not a riot. It needs a word found in mediaeval history, a fury. Yet ‘fury’ sounds spontaneous and there must have been some deliberation and organisation to see this fury on the way.’ The culpability of Suhravardy in this sordid criminal operation was laid bare by the local Army Commander and the Chief Secretary of the Bengal Government before Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India, who visited Calcutta in the last week of August 1946.


Like the Suhravardy Government of Undivided Bengal in August 1946, the CPI(M) Government in West Bengal today is even more virulently anti-Hindu. Many of the Marxist cadres consist of jihadi Muslims who are in league with Islamic terrorists. The same situation obtains in Malappuram District, Kerala. There also there is a marriage of political convenience between the CPI (M) and the two Muslim terrorist parties like the NDF and the PDP. Continuous violence is let loose by these elements against the innocent Hindu population in Malapuram District. This is done with the full political approval and administrative support of the Marxist Government of Kerala.


In these columns In a series of three articles titled ‘CPI(M) Led Islamic Terrorism at Ganga Sagar’ published on 19, 20 and 23 June, 2008, I had observed as follows: “The Hindus of India and even more so, the Hindus of West Bengal and Kerala, have now come to know that the leaders and the members of the CPI(M) are their greater enemies than the Islamic terrorists. Wherever they are in power, they are determined to put even the anti-Hindu and anti-Sanatana Dharma record of famous Islamic marauders in History like Mohammed of Ghazni, Mohammed of Ghori, Balban, Allaudin Khilji, Babar, Aurangazeb, Nadir Shah and Ahmed Shah Abdali to everlasting ignominious shame. It is against this background that Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh and the Hindus of Bengal have come forward in a determined and united manner to establish Hindu Samhati to protect the Hindus of Bengal against the murderous attacks of CPI(M) Party men and their Islamic terrorist allies. With an incredibly tremendous enthusiasm, a new Hindu Social forum called ‘HINDU SAMHATI’ was launched in Kolkata at the Bharat Sabha Hall (erstwhile Indian Association Hall) on the 14 February 2008. Belying all expectations the venue overflowed with supporters and activists and many willingly endured the entire 4 hour long session standing on their feet as seats were already filled up. The session was convened by Sri Tapan Kumar Ghosh and was conducted by Sri Upananda Brahmachari. Senior and prominent Hindu leaders from all over India attended this launch to address the gathering and to extend their support and solidarity towards the cause for which Sri Tapan Ghosh and his compatriots have instituted this forum.

’I spoke over the telephone, yesterday to Tapan Kumar Ghosh, President of the Hindu Samhati, Calcutta. He gave me the following message regarding the policy of Muslim appeasement at all costs followed by the West Bengal Government.

‘A fresh chapter of minority (Muslim) appeasement has been opened by the ruling Marxists of West Bengal after their debacle in the recent Parliament Election. Now the appeasement is not barely a promise. It is getting to turn into a reality. Though the Constitution of India does not provide space for any sort of reservation along religious lines, the government and other political parties together can not resist the temptation to extend reservation facilities in the government services by any means. Tax payers’ money is being poured in the name of providing education to the minorities. Despite the fact that reservation for any religious community is not entertained by the Constitution of India, government of West Bengal is set to open special morning session in the three leading colleges of Kolkata exclusively for Muslim students. After the electoral punch received from the Muslims in the recent Parliament election which evidently laid the basis of an unprecedented disaster of omnipotent Marxists in Bengal, the rulers are now determined to regain the chunk of Muslim vote with fanatic desperation. Even a replacement of our comical Chief Minister Mr. Buddhadev Bhattacharjee with a new unknown Muslim personality might also be a part of their desperation in near future. Then the circle will be full. Mamata Banerjee, the leader of opposition, who claimed distinguished notoriety for being a drama queen in the past, is another emblem of Muslim appeasement in our unfortunate state. This trail of events is being seen as a prelude of an ever increasing demands of Muslims that will be raised in the next years, however illicit and illegitimate, and will finally culminate in the formation of another MUSLIMSTAN in the subcontinent.’

On the 1st Anniversary of its birth, on 14th February 2009, the activist of HINDU SAMHATI, under the heroic leadership of Sri Tapan Ghosh, took the following Oath at Shraddhananda Park, Kolkata.

1. We will not tolerate any displacement of any Hindu from Hindustan.
   
2. We shall not allow any injustice, torture and humiliation of Hindus.


3. The dignity of Hindu Mothers and sisters is much more valuable than our lives.


4. We will save the dignity of them all even at the cost of our lives.


5. We must not allow our sisters to convert to other religions.


6. We will protect our God & Goddesses and their Temples at all costs in spite of all terror and however long and hard the road may be.


7. We shall never allow the ingress of Bangladeshi Infiltrators in this land.


8. We will struggle for total Justice for all the Hindus of Bengal till our last breath.


9. Never shall we compromise with any injustice, even we be beheaded. We shall not retreat. We shall never surrender. Never!!!


10. Never shall we bend our Heads. Never shall we tolerate humiliation. We shall follow the Sermon of Lord Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Bhagabad Gita.

Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj)

Let me now go back to the scene of anti-Hindu riots in Murshidabad District. Tapan Ghosh told me that the battered Hindus of Beldanga town are fearing that the famous President of Bharat Sevashram Sangha, the highly revered Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj) may be attacked by communal Muslims. The Swamiji is now away from his Ashram; he has gone on a pilgrimage to Mansarovar-Kailas. He is expected to return in 5-6 days. Bharat Sevashram Sangha is a Hindu charitable non-governmental organisation in India. It was founded in 1917 by Acharya Srimat Swami Pranavanandaji Maharaj. The Sangha has hundreds of ashrams in India and other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Bangladesh. It has initiated several missions to African countries, Malaysia, and Indonesia; monks from the Sangha have accompanied United Nations delegations to Syria and Lebanon.

The Hindus of Murshidabad District are concerned about the safety of Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj). It is understood that some Muslim terrorist elements are planning to assassinate him when he returns from his pilgrimage. Hindu leaders of the area have expressed the view that the Government of West Bengal should take immediate steps to give total police protection to this Swamiji. Otherwise, he may meet the same fate as Swami Laxmananda Saraswati of Khandmal in Orissa who was killed in August 2008.

The fears of the Hindus of the area about the physical safety of Swami Pradiptanandaji (Kartik Maharaj) do not seem to be unfounded. On October 31, 2008, two terrorist organisations (HUJI-B AND SIMI) sent a threatening letter to Swami Pradiptanandaji, warning him and the Hindus of the area to desist from participating in the Dugra Puja celebrations. In terms of Talipanization, Murshidabad District today seems to have become a part of Islamic Bangladesh now. Both the Central Government and the Government of West Bengal must take immediate action to give full protection to this Swamiji.

To be contd...)

(The writer is a retired IAS officer)

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1946 Direct Action of Jinnah Re-Enacted - Part 1

V. Sundaram

The print and electronic English media have conspired together against the innocent Hindus of West Bengal by completely blacking out the news regarding the savage communal attack on the Hindus carried out by the criminal Muslim elements in Murshidabad district on July 10, 2009.


Murshidabad district (Bengali:) is a district of West Bengal in eastern India. Situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, the district is very fertile. Covering an area of 5,341 km² (2,062 sq mi) and having a population 5.863 million (according to 2001 census) it is a densely populated district. The Baharampur town is the headquarters of the district.

Jinnah and Suhravardy’s Direct Action in Calcutta City on August 16, 1946

More than 12 Hindus have been killed and hundreds have been injured including 10 Policemen and one DSP rank Police Officer in Murshidabad District. Two village markets and hundreds of Hindu houses and Hindu shops were looted and burnt. Firing between the Police and Muslim rioters were going on for more than 48 hours till July 12’ 09. BSF and CRPF men have been deployed to help the local police and the RAF. Our English Newspapers and TV Channels have completely suppressed this news. All of them seem to be more concerned about the fight that is now going on between the Muslim Chinese and the non-Muslim Han Chinese in Urumqi, the Capital of Western Xinjiang region, in China.

Most important fact that should be noted is that Murshidabad is a Muslim majority district bordering Bangladesh and unauthorized infiltration of Muslims — the favourite vote banks of CPI(M) and Sonia Congress parties — has been rampant from 1980. When the Congress party was losing it’s political hold in Assam and in the North-Eastern region, the Congress Government of Indira Gandhi deliberately brought in the ILLEGAL MIGRANTS (Determination by Tribunals) Act of 1983 (IMDT Act) to create an endless flow of Muslim vote banks largely consisting of Congress sponsored Muslim infiltrators from Bangladesh. This anti-national Act brought in by Indira Gandhi was struck down by the Supreme Court of India in July 2005. Muslims became the most favoured citizens of India under the IMDT Act of 1983 because under this Act legal rights were conferred upon Bangladeshi Muslims to settle down in Assam or any other part of India and become Indian citizens. On the other hand, in a dastardly act of reverse communal discrimination, the Indians from the rest of India were denied the right to settle and vote in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The general approach of the Government of India in all matters relating to the Hindus in absolute majority is to oscillate in a deliberate manner between policies and programmes that are specially anti-Hindu, specifically anti-Hindu, particularly anti-Hindu, generally anti-Hindu and generically anti-Hindu.

The Muslims were in minority in Murshidabad District on August 15, 1947. Today they are in absolute majority. The fact that is being deliberately suppressed by both the Government of India and the Marxist Government of West Bengal on the one hand and the nationally / socially irresponsible Media, both print and electronic, is that in many of the Muslim-majority pockets of West Bengal today, the politically pampered Muslims are behaving in the most the intolerant and oppressive manner in which they behaved towards the Hindus in West Pakistan and East Pakistan during and after the dark days of partition. The recent Muslim- Hindu riots in West Bengal….

Let me give some more specific facts about the recent communal riots in Murshidabad District. All the trouble started in Jhaubona High School in Jhaubona village coming under Nawda police station in Beldanga Sub Division in Murshidabad district. Out of a total of 1000 students in this school, about 50% are Muslim students. For long the Muslim students have been 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. Consequently, the furious Muslim students made objection against Saraswati Puja in the school and the school management has been compelled to stop Saraswati puja last year in the school. Suddenly in a fit of passion, all the Muslim students in this school unilaterally planned to offer Friday Namaz on July 10, 2009 by force inside the school without any permission from the Head Master or the School Management. Hindu students protested against the move to convert the school into a make-shift mosque. As a result altercation started at 12 noon on July 10, 2009 between the two groups of students.

Let me give some more specific facts about the recent communal riots in Murshidabad District. All the trouble started in Jhaubona High School in Jhaubona village coming under Nawda police station in Beldanga Sub Division in Murshidabad district. Out of a total of 1000 students in this school, about 50% are Muslim students. For long the Muslim students have been 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. Consequently, the furious Muslim students made objection against Saraswati Puja in the school and the school management has been compelled to stop Saraswati puja last year in the school. Suddenly in a fit of passion, all the Muslim students in this school unilaterally planned to offer Friday Namaz on July 10, 2009 by force inside the school without any permission from the Head Master or the School Management. Hindu students protested against the move to convert the school into a make-shift mosque. As a result altercation started at 12 noon on July 10, 2009 between the two groups of students.

Muslims were totally prepared for an armed rioting. Through cell phone they spread the false message that Hindu students attacked Muslim students in the school. Within 10-15 minutes, thousands of Muslims led by the students of nearby Trimohini Madrasa rushed to the school. They attacked the Hindu students in the school. They also indulged in acts of violence in the big village market of Trimohini. Many Hindu shops in the Trimohini market were burnt and looted. Further the armed Muslim rioters attacked the three Hindu villages of Jhaubona, Trimohini and Darapara. Many Hindu houses were burnt and looted in these three villages. According to reliable reports, in one house 4 Hindus died in the fire, including a father and his daughter who were burnt alive. In all, more than 12 Hindus have been killed and more than 150 Hindus have been seriously injured. The injured persons were admitted to Baharampur and Amtala hospitals. I have disturbing news to the effect that all the people living in the Hindu villages coming under Nawda and Hariharpara Police Stations are keeping themselves awake through out the night. They are scared of a possible Muslim attack upon their villages.As noted earlier, the Murshidabad district is a Muslim majority district. All the areas coming under the jurisdiction of 3 Police Stations in Beldanga Sub Division – Beldanga, Nawda and Hariharpara – are Muslim majority areas. Beldanga Sub Division is a communally explosive area bordering Bangladesh.

Mr. Pranab Mukherjee has been elected from Janghipur Parliamentary Constituency in Murshidabad District. The area where the recent communal riots have taken place do not come in Pranab Mukherjee’s constituency. The affected area (Beldanga Division) comes in Baharampur Parliamentary Constituency. Before the elections, Pranab Mukherjee had given a political assurance to the Muslim voters in his constituency that he would take immediate action to open a branch of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in the Murshidabad District in the event of his being elected as MP from that area. Now that he has been elected, as a gratitude to the Muslims of this district, Pranab Mukherjee announced in his finance Budget in parliament that he would allocate a huge sum of money to establish a campus of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in this district. All of us are aware that this AMU had spearheaded the separatist movement for creation of PAKISTAN in pre 1947 years.

But tragedy is that a few days ago, Pranab Mukherjee visited his Murhsidabad Constituency on Sunday, the 12th of July, 2009 to personally announce this decision to his Muslim voters. He was fully aware of the fact of the communal rioting which had taken place) on Friday, the 10th of July, 2009 in Murhsidabad District (portion of the District not coming under his Constituency) which had left so many Hindus dead and many grievously wounded. ‘And yet for reasons best known to himself, he did not care to visit the riot-affected area in the same Murshidabad District.!!’Seeing what is happening to the Hindus today in Murshidabad District and other areas of West Bengal, I cannot help observing that the Government of West Bengal and the Government of India are acting in unison to re-enact the same violent drama of ‘Direct Action’ which was jointly enacted by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and HS Suhravardy, the then prime Minister of UNDIVIDED BENGAL, on August 16, 1946 in Calcutta City.


Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s call for Direct Action on July 27, 1946

On the 27th of July 1946, Mohammad Ali Jinnah gave a call to the Muslims to observe August 16, 1946 as “Direct Action Day”. Jinnah declared: “The Muslims of India wouldn’t rest contented with any thing less than the immediate establishment of independent and fully sovereign State of Pakistan. ... Now the time has come for the Muslim Nation to resort to Direct action. ... We have taken a most historic decision. Never before in the whole life history of the Muslim League did we do anything except by constitutional methods. Today we have said good-bye to constitutional methods. Throughout the painful negotiations the two parties with whom we bargain held a pistol at us — one with power and machine-guns behind it and the other with non-co-operation and the threat to launch mass civil disobedience. The situation must be met. We also have a pistol.’

To be Continued

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