Deganga Hindus terrorized: BJP demands action on Deganga violence
KOLKATA, TNN, Sep 10, 2010, 01.05am IST: The BJP has demanded the arrest of a Trinamool Congress leader for the violence that rocked Deganga in North 24-Parganas on Monday evening.
“The people in the area are terror-stricken. For the first two days, the police and district administration did nothing to stem the violence. We have spoken to senior police officers. They have assured us that as soon as the situation is brought under control, they will start investigations against the accused,” said BJP MP Chandan Mitra.
Mitra, fellow party MP Uday Singh and former state BJP chief Tathagata Roy visited the affected areas on Thursday and spoke to villagers. They assessed the damage caused by the violence and urged locals to maintain peace and “prevent any attempt by outsiders to foment trouble”.
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Army flag march continues in Deganga, W. Bengal
Kolkata, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:33: Army continued with its flag marches for the third day on Thursday while prohibitory orders were relaxed at violence-hit Deganga in North 24-Parganas district.
“Army is still at Deganga where they staged flag marches, but the situation is under control and no fresh incident of violence was reported,” the District Magistrate said.
Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) personnel and state armed policemen were also deployed at Deganga.
Two columns of army were deployed there after paramilitary forces failed to control violence following the killing of a man on Tuesday.
West Bengal Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta visited the area on Wednesday night and asked police to apprehend troublemakers.
One person was killed and 25 others, including a DSP and seven policemen, injured in the violence after several places of worship were desecrated following clashes between two groups.
Deganga still tense, army flag marches in violence-hit areas
PTI | 06:09 PM,Sep 08, 2010
Kolkata, Sep 8 (PTI) Army jawans staged flag marches at Deganga in North 24 Parganas district even as stray clashes were reported from elsewhere in the district today. Two columns of army jawans, deployed last night to restore peace at the request of civil administration, staged flag marches this morning in some areas of Deganga after police and paramilitary failed to contain violence, police said. “Army is still at Deganga and they staged flag marches,” District Magistrate Vinod Kumar told PTI over phone. One person was killed and 25 others, including a DSP and seven policemen, were injured in the violence yesterday after several places of worship were desecrated following clashes between two groups, police said.Several houses, shops were ransacked while four vehicles and two police vans also torched. “The situation is still tense, but under control,” official sources said, adding that EFR personnel were still deployed in the area. District Superintendent of Police (DSP) Rahul Srivastava is still camping at Deganga. Prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the CrPC were still in force in the area. However curfew was not imposed, they said.
The Hindu newspaper reports;
Parts of North 24—Parganas district were today brought under curfew and the army was requisitioned to assist paramilitary forces in restoring peace after several places of worship were desecrated following clashes between two groups.
North 24—Parganas District Magistrate Vinod Kumar said curfew has been imposed in Deganga area in the wake of violence that left a deputy superintendent of police and a civilian injured. The DSP was injured in brickbatting, while the civilian received bullet injury.
“The Army has been requisitioned for enforcing peace at Deganga. Around 200 personnel have been sent to the area to stage a flag march to instill confidence in the people,” a Defence official said.
CRPF and BSF were moved in earlier in the day to contain violence that erupted last night after clashes between two groups on the issue of taking out a procession in front of a place of worship, a senior police officer said.
Kumar said all precautionary measures have been taken to check the spread of violence. “The situation is now under control,” he said.
Clashes broke out last night between two groups on the issue of taking out a procession in front of a place of worship and later spread to other areas, a senior police officer said.
The area witnessed widespread rampage and loot. A vehicle was also torched this morning by mobs which had set up road blocks and burnt four vehicles yesterday.
Hindu Samhati reports:
September 8, 2010: NO RESPITE DESPITE ARMY PRESENCE. TODAY MORNING AGAIN MUSLIMS ARE ATTACKING DIFFERENT HINDU VILLAGES AROUND KARTICKPUR AWAY FROM THE MAIN ROAD.
HINDU WOMEN ARE FLEEING FROM BISWANATHPUR TOWARDS KARTICKPUR AS A LARGE MUSLIM MOB IS PROCEEDING FROM DOGACHHIA SIDE. POLICE IS TOTALLY HELPLESS. SEVERAL RAF PERSONNEL HAVE BEEN SEVERELY BEATEN UP BY THE MUSLIMS. EVEN ARMY IS UNABLE TO STOP THE MUSLIM MOB.
“KHEJURDANGA KARMAKAR PARA” VILLAGE JUST NOW BURNT. IT IS 2 KM. INSIDE FROM THE MAIN ROAD. ARMY IS NOT GOING THERE.
WOMEN ARE SCARED. ARMY IS NOT GOING INSIDE AS THEIR NUMBER IS TOO SMALL, ONLY ABOUT 200
SITUATION EXTREMELY WORSE. HINDUS ARE WAITING FOR MASSACRE. ALL SIDES ARE BLOCKED BY THE MUSLIMS. NO ROUTE TO ESCAPE.
Earlier reports
Deganga, North 24 Parganas District, W. Bengal
September 7, 2010: The situation has been worsened today morning, Muslims again attacked the Hindus at Beliaghata and Kartickpur.
Temple destruction and looting of Hindu houses and shops are going on in massive scale.
Today morning Muslims destroyed Khejurdanga Durgamandap, Changdana Shiv Temple, Kartickpur Kali Temple and several other Hindu temples.
The Hindu shops of Beliaghata market have been looted. Grocery shop of Jhantu Biswas at Kartickpur bus stand has been looted totally.
Houses of Tarun Bhowmik, Kuntal Das, Kalyan Dutta and many others have been looted and ransacked.
Muslims are threatening that tonight they will enjoy all Hindu women.
All these happened in front of police and RAF (Rapid Action Force).
It is reported that RAF fled from the area leaving the hapless Hindus at the mercy of the rampaging Muslims. So, Muslims are looting and destroying unhindered.
In another report it is learnt that thousands of Muslims from Falti Anchal attacked Beliaghata market. 10-12 RAF personnel has taken shelter in a shop, they closed the shutter from inside to save their lives and the Muslims poured petrol outside the shop.
Even the District Superintendent of Police is unable to enter the area, or may be he is afraid of. He is standing at Golaghata, 6 kms. away from the hot spot.
Hindus started to remove the women elderly and the children of their families to safer areas. But it is being extremely difficult for them because Muslims encircled them in all directions. Frantic calls are coming to HS workers to rescue them. HS workers are trying to enter the area from any side.
The situation is totally out of control. Administration totally failed. Now it is considering to deploy army.
First reports from Hindu Samhati
HINDU TEMPLES DESECRATED, MARKETS LOOTED, POLICE OFFICER INJURED AT DEGANGA
September 6, 2010 : Today evening after Iftar, Muslims assembled in the Deganga Mosque (Basirhat SD, North 24 Parganas) and proceeded to a number of Hindu areas, looted and ransacked many Hindu shops and Hindu temples, severely beat up many Hindus, torched 4 public buses. The life of the whole stretch from Berachapa to Kadamgachi has been frozen.
Shani Temple of Kartickpur and Kali Temple of Deganga Biplabi Colony desecrated and ransacked by the rioting Muslims.
Arup Ghosh, Officer in Charge of Deganga police station is seriously injured by the rampaging Muslims. His head and hand have been fractured. Several other policemen also injured. Police had to fire to control the Muslim mob, but with no effect.
Today at 11 am, the dispute started when some fanatic Muslims started to dig the passage of a Durga Temple in Chattal Pally village which is situated just beside the Deganga Police Station. This Durga Temple is at least 25 year old. In past, Muslims tried many times to stop the Durgapuja. Hindus resisted their ill effort. This Chattal Pally and Deganga P.S. come under the district of North 24 Parganas, and its Parliamentary constituency is Basirhat. In 2009 election, Hazi Nurul Islam of T.M.C. won this constituency defeating long time Communist M.P. Ajay Chakraborty (C.P.I). After this change of power, Hindus of the whole area are facing all types of threat, humiliation, torture and their religious practices are in danger.
When Hindus objected the digging of the Temple passage, Muslims gathered there in large number and started mayhem. Hindus informed the police. Police came and they had to face the jihadi enthusiasm of the Muslims. Officer in Charge injured at that time. Then Muslims threatened that now Roja is going on. After the end of Roja and taking Iftar, they will teach stern lesson to the Hindus. So, after afternoon, Hindus dared not to open their shops on the stretch between Berachapa to Kadamgachhi on the Barasat – Basirhat Road. By this time, large contingent of police and RAF took position. Defying their presence, Muslims gathered in large number in the Deganga Mosque and started looting and destroying the Hindu shops, not in Chattal Pally, but in the big markets of Beliaghata, Deganga and Kartickpur. A big shop of Anil Bangal, a Hindu, has been looted fully among many other shops. Anil Bangal has been seriously injured. More than 25 people have been injured.
Latest position is that Police is not allowing the Hindus to come out of their homes so that they can enquire the damage done by the Muslims and Muslims are roaming freely in front of police force. Overall situation has been worsened. It is alleged that Maqbur Rehman, Mintu Sahaji led the Muslim rioters. It is also alleged that one TMC Hindu leader Ms. Ratna Chowdhury is trying to pressurize police not to take strong steps to stop the Muslim rampaging mob. The new TMC M.P. Hazi Nurul Islam allegedly influenced the police to remain inactive.
The Muslims are majority in number in the Deganga Block as well as in Basirhat Sub division of North 24 Parganas district. According to 2001 Census report, Muslims were 69.51 percent in Deganga Block. Naturally after nine years, their percentage increased a lot and Hindus in that Block are living a life almost like Pakistan. This North 24 Parganas district, is the largest border district where the highest number of Hindu refugees took shelter after being persecuted in erstwhile East Pakistan and present Bangladesh. In spite of that, the eight Blocks among total 29 of this districts became Muslim majority blocks in 2001 census.
Today’s violence in Deganga has been reported only in the NE Bangla channel of electronic media of West Bengal. All other channels including Star Anand, as always they do, are mum and suppressing the misdeeds of the fanatic Muslims.
Reports compiled by Hindu Samhati International team.
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We need bal thakre at every state in india … and then these muslims will know how are real hindus.
Bengalis have to take the blame for all this. it is the British who pampered them saying that ” What Bengal does today , Indian does tomorrow” This set the ball rolling for them being Britishified bhadralok and neglecting its glorious culture which produced outstanding Sanatanis like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , who is the pioneer in harinam sankirtan. They forgot Swami Vivekananda , Ramakrishna Parahamsa and took refuge in the shoddy intellect of Marxism. Compared to this the Sikhs have to be admired. They stuck to their Gurbani and whatever the aberations came leading to the golden temple incident was the cardinal mistake of Madam I Gandhi and foreign forces. It was ” AA Bayal ( Come on bullock) Mujhe Maar ( beat me) ” philosophy which has driven the wonderul Bengali culture to its nadir. So as Swamiji said ” Arise & Awake and rest not till your goal of going back to your root culture is achieved” Wake up from the Rip Van Winkilism of stupid stubborn intellect.
How to Civilize Muslims
Mahendra Mathur
Read-the-Qur’an Committee & Dr. Pasha Center for Culture & Community Service invited the world’s 5,000,000,000 plus non-Muslim men and women of all faiths, nationalities, cultures and races to join 1,500,000,000 Muslims around the world in a World Day of Fasting on Sunday, September 5, 2010 and enumerated 19 ways to do it. Actually life for the 5 billion plus non-Muslim population of the world will be much better if Muslims stopped following some precepts of social behaviour which seldom occur to the non-Muslims generally. What follows are 19 Don’ts for Muslims which will go a long way towards civilizing them
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Time for Hindus to Leave or Perish?
Kanchan Gupta
In 1946 there was no ‘Right-wing media’ and ‘Left-liberal media’ in Bengal (or, for that matter, in India as it existed then). There were newspapers and journals that were clubbed together as the “Hindu Press” because they did not blindly echo the Muslim League’s raucous demand that all of Bengal must go to (East) Pakistan, and there was the “League Press” comprising dailies, weeklies and monthly magazines, of which there was a surfeit those days, all of them virulently anti-Hindu and hence pro-Pakistan – with the notable exception of The Statesman which was then edited by Ian Stephens who was pro-Pakistan and hence anti-Hindu. Curiously, newspapers and journals opposed to the League’s politics, policies and programmes were labelled as “Hindu Press” by Bengal’s blatantly communal Government led by the Muslim League and headed by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy as well as the Province’s British administrators who were never quite comfortable with the “Hindoo baboo” although he had proved to be an invaluable ally in first setting up and then managing the colonial enterprise after the sepoy mutiny of 1857 which left the Mussalman out in the cold, to be tolerated but not to be trusted. Read more …
Anatomy of a Riot Foretold
Chandan Mitra
Some readers may think this is cynical, but riots and violence have rarely moved me to get emotional. Covering Punjab in the late-1980s and early-1990s was a numbing experience. I saw so much blood spilt all around me that I became somewhat blasé about it. Almost at the same time, I travelled frequently to Bihar in connection with mounting caste-related massacres and the rise of private armies. Then came the build-up to Ram Janmabhoomi and its aftermath. Maybe it was the long gap between the years of riot coverage and my new role as a party MP that caused a somewhat different reaction when I spent last Thursday at the Deganga Block in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district to witness the savage fallout of pre-planned communal violence. Arguably, the disturbances were relatively minor by Indian standards. I had witnessed more cathartic violence earlier. But it shocked me to discover the deliberation and diabolical planning that went in behind the stirring of communal frenzy in an otherwise peaceful part of West Bengal. The linkage between the motivated triggering of the rampage and the forthcoming State Assembly poll was so palpable that it shook my sensibilities as a human, notwithstanding the fact that I am now mostly a political person who is not supposed to have such feelings
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I condemn the attack. It is a shamful act of the state government who prefers appeasement to Muslims, funds for their Madrasa and keep mum to protect Hindus! It is shameful for the opposition party also which feeds the culprits! Shame to the communists (in an other word: “KAMIYENIS”). Shame shame shame to the lefts in particular.Where gone the intellectuals? Sunanda Sanyal, Tarun Sanyal, Mahasweta Devi and so on? None to speak for Hindus?
I think hindus should get burnt heavily to learn their lesson and that may or may not wake them up. I grew up in west bengal and I know how muslims are supported by both congress and left political leaders. hindus are still in majority in West bengal how come muslims make this comments that shows hindus don’t have no spine and doesn’t know how to defend themselves. However they do know very well how to kill each other. RSS and BJP both are the shame for hindus. Both don’t have any morals. I was with RSS for 2 years nothing but a gossip group, their camp teaches how to play sticks for self defense where as muslims were taught how to play sword for selfdefense( bring parades jooluush with swords). that’s the difference between. Once someone participated few camps will be dragged to BJP which is just a regular crook political party . RSS was founded in 1925, how much work they did to raise hindu consciousness in india or all over the world. Zero, nada. I think ISKON did better job than RSS globally.
The BJP has demanded the arrest of a Trinamool Congress leader for the violence that rocked Deganga in North 24-Parganas on Monday evening. Trinamool Congress MP & Congress MP Meeting at Deganga BDO….