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Bengal Is Burning: Shame On Mamata Banerjee For Making Hindus Flee Their Own Land

April 13, 2025
The Commune

West Bengal, once a beacon of culture and intellect, has become a graveyard of justice under Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC). The ongoing horrors in Murshidabad and Samserganj—where Hindu families are reportedly fleeing their homes, their shops looted, and their lives shattered by Islamist mobs—lay bare the TMC’s complicity in a chilling campaign of targeted violence. Mamata’s rule, cloaked in the rhetoric of “Maa, Mati, Manush,” has morphed into a nightmare of appeasement politics that sacrifices Hindus on the altar of vote banks. This is not governance—it’s a deliberate surrender to chaos.

 

The violence in Murshidabad’s Suti, Samserganj, and Dhuliyan, sparked by protests over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, has claimed at least three lives, including a Hindu father and son, Hargobindo Das and Chandan Das, brutally hacked to death in Jafrabad.

 

Reports describe mobs torching vehicles, vandalizing Hindu-owned shops, and setting betel farms ablaze, with over 30 businesses targeted in areas like Dakbangla More and Kanchantala. BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari claims over 400 Hindus have been forced to flee Dhuliyan, crossing the Ganga by boat to seek refuge in Malda’s Par Lalpur, driven by fear of “religiously driven bigots.” Yet, Mamata’s response is a masterclass in evasion: a vague X post urging “peace” and a defiant refusal to implement the Waqf Act, as if stoking division absolves her of the blood on her hands.

Let’s not mince words—Mamata Banerjee is not a hapless bystander; she’s the architect of this crisis. Her decades of pandering to one community for electoral loyalty have emboldened lawlessness, turning Bengal into a tinderbox where Hindu lives are expendable. The Waqf (Amendment) Act, designed to bring transparency and curb land-grabbing, became her latest pretext to inflame tensions. Instead of fostering calm, she declared the law unwelcome in Bengal, signaling to rioters that they could act with impunity. Her police, politicized and paralyzed, stood idle as Hindu homes burned, forcing the Calcutta High Court to order BSF deployment—a stinging indictment of her administration’s failure.

The TMC’s hypocrisy is staggering. While Mamata postures as a champion of inclusivity, her silence on the targeted attacks—Hindu shops looted, a Durga pandal and Radha-Krishna temple desecrated—speaks volumes. Even her own party isn’t spared, with TMC offices ransacked and MLA Manirul Islam heckled, yet she refuses to name the perpetrators or condemn the violence unequivocally. Meanwhile, TMC MP Yusuf Pathan, representing Baharampur, posts about sipping “good chai” on Instagram as his constituents flee for their lives—a grotesque display of detachment that mirrors the party’s moral bankruptcy.

There is a threats of mass violence against Hindu women, forced exodus painting a picture of terror that Mamata’s government refuses to acknowledge. Her refusal to act decisively—coupled with TMC MP Saugata Roy’s limp excuse that “people’s sentiments are agitated”—is not just incompetence; it’s complicity.

This isn’t new. From Beldanga’s riots to Mothabari’s rampages, Bengal under Mamata has become a revolving door of anti-Hindu violence. Her administration’s pattern—ignore the victims, shield the perpetrators, and blame the Centre—has eroded trust in the state’s ability to protect its own. The exodus from Murshidabad evokes memories of Bengal’s dark past, with Hindus forced to flee like refugees in their own homeland. Mamata’s defenders might claim she’s preserving “harmony,” but enabling mob rule while Hindus are slaughtered is not harmony—it’s tyranny.

Bengal deserves a leader who governs for all, not a demagogue who thrives on division. Mamata’s legacy is now one of betrayal, transforming the land of Vivekananda into a battleground where Hindus live in fear. The people of Murshidabad and Samserganj aren’t statistics—they’re families torn apart by a government that chose votes over humanity. Shame on Mamata Banerjee and her TMC for orchestrating this tragedy—and shame on their silence as Bengal’s soul bleeds.

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