BENGAL---A COMPLEX HISTORY OF CONFLICTING FORCES ... 1

BENGAL---A COMPLEX HISTORY OF CONFLICTING FORCES ... 1

All criminal activity including jihad must be wiped out of Bengal. Syamaprasad Mookerjee did not found West Bengal for such rogues to rule. This province was intended by him to be a safe zone for Bengali Hindus massacred during pre-Partition days by the Muslim League. 

But the great patriot and nationalist died under suspicious circumstances in Kashmir in 1953 which did not allow Hindu political consolidation in West Bengal, now in the grip of the secular Congress who were unwilling participants in Partition but participants nonetheless, and the Communists who gradually perverted the mind of Bengal against patriotic Hindu thinking. Over decades illegal Muslim immigration from East Pakistan and later Bangladesh under the patronage of successive political orders in West Bengal progressively tilted the demographic balance of the state and redesigned it along a prospective Islamic state in the not-so-distant a future. The result has been a steady increase in crime against the Hindus with successive ruling dispensations caring not to address such issues. 

In the last 15 years this criminal activity reached unprecedented heights with corruption running deep in every department from which the people have now delivered themselves. 

The political culture under the CPI(M) was geared to brainwashing the youth with utopian Marxist ideology that bore allegiance to its international agenda more than it did to the nation. And naturally so, for communism is universal in its scope and philosophy which necessitates such an ideological outlook. And the sharp Bengali brain since the foundation of the CPI in 1925 has been drawn to leftist ideology of intricate historical, economic and political thinking. The RSS was also founded in 1925 to orient the Hindus towards Hindutva and so integrate them which was vital for their security interests. 

Following the gradual decline of the armed revolutionary activity against the British and the rise of passive resistance under Mahatma Gandhi, the Bengali youth including revolutionaries like Kalpana Dutta, Ganesh Ghosh and Ananta Singh, to name but a few prominent ones, overtime got drawn towards leftist thinking and, thus, began the great Bengali drift away from Hindu thinking espoused by Bankimchandra, Vivekananda and Aurobindo. This proved toxic for Bengalis lured by a mix of ideology and adventurism and made post-Independence Bengal a tinderbox that eventually erupted in 1967 with the Naxalite movement. 

The next five years were of bloody revolution with frequent killings here and there, bomb explosions galore that saw Bengal at its most violent in decades. Between 1972 and 1977 the movement was brutally suppressed by Siddhartha Sankar Ray's Congress government and a whole generation of the brightest youth of Bengal perverted by violent communist thinking had been wiped away with a ruthlessness that could match the British. 

The 19 month National Emergency between 1975 and 1977 declared by Indira Gandhi, again on the advice of Siddhartha Sankar Ray, further cemented leftist leanings en masse in Bengal and the Left came to rule uninterrupted for 34 years till 2011 when following Singur and Nandigram Mamata Bannerjee's Trinamool Congress obliterated them and came to power. 

Laudable land reforms notwithstanding, the Left rule was industrially sterile as the once flourishing Bengal from top position in the nation was reduced to penury. The CPI(M) successfully polluted the minds of Bengalis with their materialist Marxist ideology and made Bengal move away from Swamiji and Netaji's ideals, from Aurobindo and Bankim's thinking, and from the Hindutva of the RSS and the Jana Sangha of Syamaprasad Mookerjee. But the worst was yet to come. And that I shall recount in the next essay.

Written by Sugata Bose