Congress’ Chidambaram blames BJP for ‘communalising’ West Bengal

Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram has blamed the BJP for ‘communalising’ West Bengal in a sequence of tweets on Saturday. Chidambaram claimed that the ‘polarization’ of the state is the ‘gravest tragedy’ that has befallen the state of West Bengal.
The senior Congress chief seems to have forgotten the partition massacres and the Great Calcutta Killings. Bengal suffered a partition in 1947 that was accompanied by mass slaughter of Hindus, rapes and horrible violence. After all this time, for Chidambaram to say that polarization of the citizens in West Bengal is the best tragedy that the state has suffered is an insult in the direction of the Bengali Hindu group.
Chidambaram blames BJP for ‘communalizing’ West Bengal
P Chidambaram stated, “I cannot believe that the land of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Ishwar Chander Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Tagore, Subhas Chandra Bose Satyajit Ray and Dr B C Roy can fall prey to the virus of communalism”. “Anyone who claims the legacy of these great leaders — as I proudly do — should shun and fight communalism,” he added.
The Congress chief’s feedback, maybe, have been impressed by political strategist Prashant Kishore’s statements on the politics of Muslim appeasement throughout the explosive Clubhouse dialogue.
“Major problem that we have to accept is that there have been efforts for the last 20 years to appease the minorities. Take the example of Bengal. The simple strategy here has been that whoever has the Muslims vote, will form the government. Be it the Left, Congress or Didi’s government, the strategy has been to garner Muslim votes. For the first time, Hindus have realised that there is a party for them. It is not as if there is something wrong with the society altogether,” Prashant Kishore had stated.
He concluded, “This is the aspect that the BJP is exploiting. And this comes from the blatant use of minority politics by some of these parties. You and I cannot deny this reality.”
Chidambaram, nonetheless, seems extra inclined than ever to disclaim the reality that’s watching him on his face. The reality is that Bengal has suffered partition alongside non secular strains and all of the horror that got here together with it.
After partition, a cycle of minority appeasement politics ensued that has continued to this present day. The model of politics that Mamata Banerjee practices, with restrictions on Durga Puja and silence on the riots that Hindus have suffered in latest instances, is just the obvious face of it.
For a Congress chief to then blame the BJP for ‘communalising’ West Bengal and shaming Bengali Hindus for worrying about their identification is the proper demonstration of exactly why Congress is nowhere close to in competition within the state and its political fortunes throughout the nation continues to undergo.
Intriguingly, the Congress celebration is in alliance with the Indian Secular Front (ISF), which is satirically led by rabid Islamist Abbas Siddiqui. Abbas Siddiqui is identical peerzada who had prayed to Allah throughout the introduction of the Coronavirus pandemic in India final yr to ship such a virus that it killed 50 crore Indians.
“If we do not come to power next time, they (Hindus) will rape our women in front of our eyes. Do you understand? You cannot do anything if you do not have power in your hands,” Siddiqui had stated on one other event.
Such is the individual that the Congress celebration has allied itself with. And then, it blames the BJP for polarization in West Bengal. It is sort of amusing, certainly.