WEST BENGAL DAY (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ দিবস)

WEST BENGAL DAY (পশ্চিমবঙ্গ দিবস)

Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee, the founder of West Bengal. This was the day, 20 June, 1947, when the resolution to include Hindu-majority West Bengal in partitioned India was passed with a thumping majority 58--21 to snatch West Bengal as homeland for the Bengali Hindus from the vile grip of the All India Muslim League. The leader who almost singlehandedly effected this was Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee who in effect thus had partitioned the prospective Pakistan that was to be created by partitioning Punyabhūmi Bhāratvarsha on 14 August, 1947. The other plan of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Sarat Chandra Bose and Abul Hashim to separate a United Bengal from undivided India as a separate country was thus also foiled. 

Today we, Bengali Hindus, owe everything to this great son of Bengal but have sadly forgotten his contribution. The newly elected Bharatiya Janata Party Government of West Bengal is resurrecting the memory and legacy of Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee after a deliberate lapse of 79 years since Independence by previous governments. It is bounden on us to study the life and legacy of this great patriot who eventually laid down his life in 1953 under tragic and suspicious circumstances in Kashmir with a Congress Central Government showing absolute apathy towards unearthing the real cause and circumstance of his death. It is upto us to research and discover the brilliance of his life and the dark secrets of his death.

My reverence and prostration at the lotus feet of this great Indian but for whom we Bengali Hindus would have suffered the servitude, tyranny and torture our brethren in Bangladesh have been suffering since pre-Partition days till date. 

Vande Mātaram! 🕉 Hindu!

Written by Sugata Bose