Thursday, June 8, 2023

‘Why 118 of 179 groups in OBC list are Muslim’ — Backward Classes panel probes ‘irregularity’ in Bengal.

 

 


NCBC probing West Bengal’s State OBC list; Chair Hansraj Ahir asks why more Muslim communities than Hindu.

Alleges many ‘illegal immigrants” from Bangladesh and Rohingya people from Myanmar getting quota benefits. 118 out of the total 179 communities of Backward Class are categorised as Muslim communities in WB.

Siddhartha Purkait  

The Other Backward Class (OBC) People  in West Bengal, now termed as Backward Class (BC) People were very much shocked to see that the interests of the Hindu root OBC or BC people were extremely violated for the inclusion of Muslim people in the BC list for giving the more advantage to the later after curtailment of benefits for the earlier. 

For the high appeasement politics for the Muslim minority people in WB, the state authority allowed 10% reservation in jobs and seats in educational institutions etc for Muslim BC people considering them as BC-A and only 7% reservation is given for most of the the Hindu backward class people categorised as BC-B as seen in the system manipulated by the Govt. 

But the total population of Muslims in West Bengal is 27.1% as per 2011 census (actually crossed 35% limit in mainland WB as per many reports & projections); while the Hindu BC people are estimated as 40% of the total population of West Bengal including the big chunk of Mahishya or Chashi Kaibartya community in the state. It is claimed that 3.5 crore people of Mahishya Chashi Kaibartya community live in West Bengal as the largest Hindu Backward People in the state.

Then it is a great discrimination in BC reservation in West Bengal that 30% Muslim BC people in West Bengal are getting 10% reservation, but 40% of Hindu BC people are getting only 7% of reservation facilities.

Again, acting upon allegations that illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar were being allowed to take up reservation in West Bengal, the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has now launched an investigation into the State’s OBC (Other Backward Classes) list, Commission Chair Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said on June 8.

 


The NCBC Chair, at a press conference in New Delhi, said, “When we visited the State in February this year, we took up the matter and questioned how there were more Muslim OBC castes than Hindu OBC castes in the State, when the absolute population of Hindus in the State is clearly higher. They did not have satisfactory replies.”  

Mr. Ahir added that there was “clearly something wrong” with the State OBC list in West Bengal and that the NCBC is committed to removing communities that were added without due procedure. He said that nearly 90% of the communities in the Category A (Most backward) list were Muslim and similarly more than half of the communities in Category B were also Muslim. 

According to the State government’s OBC list, 118 out of the total 179 communities are categorised as Muslim communities — most of them placed in the Category A list. 

The NCBC chair went on to say that they had sought detailed clarifications from the State government about this. “First, they told us orally that these Muslim communities were Hindus before and had eventually converted. But when we came back to Delhi, they sent a written reply saying there is no proof that all these communities had converted from Hinduism.”

While speaking about the issue, Mr. Ahir clarified, “These issues should not be seen as the OBC Commission taking a stand against Muslims. I am aware that there are many Muslim communities entitled to reservation and they should not be deprived of their benefits either.”

But this is about the State government led by CM Mamata Banerjee  allowing reservation to be taken up by those not entitled to it “in order to appease some communities”, Mr. Ahir said. When asked which particular communities the Commission is looking at in its investigations, the NCBC chair said, “We are going to do an in-depth inquiry in the coming weeks. Addition of communities like this has been done for years now.”

The NCBC chairperson also alleged that the State government in West Bengal was using institutions such as the Cultural Research Institute (CRI) to get positive recommendations for whatever communities that it wished to add.

On the other hand, Mr. Ahir also said that several States such as Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, and Maharashtra had asked for some communities to be added to the Central OBC list. He added that the Commission was looking into these requests.

Meanwhile, in what was his first press interaction since he took up the position as NCBC Chairperson, Mr. Ahir asserted that the Union government, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had taken monumental strides in OBC welfare. 

He cited the 2021 Constitutional Amendment (105th) which reinforced States’ power to build their own OBC lists. He also mentioned the 102nd Constitutional Amendment, which he claimed had solidified the NCBC and its powers. Mr. Ahir also credited the Modi government for bringing in reservations for OBCs in schools and medical colleges, which he said could have been done at least a decade ago but was not. 

However, Mr. Ahir maintained that in his State visits and reviews conducted in the last six months, he found that all States — Bihar, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Punjab, etc. — were poor at maintaining accurate rosters as per reservation. 

“Whether it is PSUs, banks, educational institutes, teaching positions or others, rosters are not being maintained properly and directions have been issued to that effect. Ultimate goal is to ensure that everywhere where there is entitlement, full 27% reservation should be given to OBCs,” Mr. Ahir said. 

In recent times, in many recruitment, a huge presence of Muslim BC candidates were seen the selection panel against less Hindu BC candidates as a gross discrimination to them. 

Not only that, many Backward  Class Organisations in West Bengal including 'Bangiya Chasi Kaibartta- Mahishya Samaj' allege that Hindus are not getting the Backward Class Certificates at ease, but Muslims are given the same very easily by the certificate issuing authorities.

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__Inputs from The Hindu. 

 



Wednesday, June 7, 2023

West Bengal Heading Towards A Civil War As Communal Cauldron Simmers.

 


West Bengal Heading Towards A Civil War As Communal Cauldron Simmer

Unabated infiltration, demographic change, radicalisation through Saudi-funded madrassas and appeasement politics are pushing Bengal into communal cauldron. Call for separate ‘Mughalistan’ and and establishment of Sharia system is getting louder. As American journalist Janet Levy predicted, Bengal could be heading towards a civil war  ......


Sukla Sikdar

World’s second large demographic nation India’s state West Bengal is now apparently residence of over 91 million population. West Bengal is the fourthmost populous State and stands at. To get an insight into the present situation of West Bengal anyone has to look back in 1947 and later consequences. As being a prominent ethnocultural region of India, West Bengal faced political partition in the year 1947 in the wake of the transformation of British India into two separate independent nations India and Pakistan. Under the process of partition, the then Bengal province was bifurcated into two segments. The predominately Hindu living area named West Bengal, a state of India, and the predominately-Muslim living area turned as East Bengal and after becoming a province of Pakistan that renamed as East Pakistan and later in 1971, the Muslim-majority country of Bangladesh. 

 

In 1971, at the time of partition, the Muslim population of West Bengal counted 12 per cent and the Hindu population of East Bengal remained 30 per cent. While at present, with continuous Muslim immigration, Hindu persecution, conversions, and less production of offspring, West Bengal’s Muslim population has increased to 30 per cent (up to 63 per cent in some districts). While as per the counting report of 2011 Bangladesh’s Hindu population has decreased to 8 per cent. When at the present situation for Hindus in Bangladesh is certainly dire, then life has become increasingly difficult for Hindus in West Bengal, having a Muslim-appeasing Government. The governance of the elected Government led to the demographic and cultural shifts in West Bengal. Prevailing of the same governance after the 2021 Vidhan Sabha election leads to the destruction of Hindu’s belonging everywhere in Bengal. The situation stood worse in the outskirts where media coverage is poor, compelling Hindu families to flee in adjacent States or to hide. A sizable number of Bengali Hindu families already preferred to shift to Assam. 

 

American journalist Janet Levy has written an article in which she predicted that Bengal will soon become a separate Islamic country. Levy claims civil war is going to start soon in Bengal after Kashmir

 

Looking back as per astriking report of July 2014 by Times of India fewer children were born in Bengal and the prediction was there will be even fewer in the next generation. The 2011 Census shows a decadal growth of 13.84 per cent in West Bengal, which was significantly below the national growth average of 17.7 per cent, and the decadal growth was lowest ever and beaten only by the aftermath of the infamous Famine of Bengal, 1942. 

 

While the retrospective study of the demography of West Bengal shows that the culturally dominant Hindu population in West Bengal during the first census of 1951 was around 19,462,706 and in the 2011 census it had increased to 64,385,546. While the percentage of the Hindu population in the State decreased from 78.45 per cent in 1951 to 70.54 per cent in the 2011 Census. The data sharply indicates fewer children birth within families of Hindus only while the population of Muslim counterparts tends to grow over time. Once considered a symbol of Indian culture, what has happened in Bengal for the last few decades is the indicator of West Bengal’s demographic future. 

 

Starting from the diminishing of the Hindu culture, communal riots against the Hindus have started happening for quite some time and the situation has been that the banning of celebrating the festivals of Hindus has started in the last few years. Added to those the recent genocide of Hindus depicting a recent trend of population.  

 

While the percentage of the Hindu population in the State decreased from 78.45 per cent in 1951 to 70.54 per cent in the 2011 Census. The data sharply indicates fewer children birth within families of Hindus only while the population of Muslim counterparts tends to grow over time. Once considered a symbol of Indian culture, what has happened in Bengal for the last few decades is the indicator of West Bengal’s demographic future

Back in 2015, the famous American journalist Janet Levy has written an article on Bengal and the revelations that have been made in it state that Bengal will soon become a separate Islamic country. Janet Levy claims in her article that civil war is going to start soon in Bengal after Kashmir, which has almost begun in recent times in the wake of the Vidhan Sabha election of West Bengal. 

 

Ushering the prediction of Janet Levy Hindus will be massacred and demanded a separate country. She cited the facts for her claim back in 2015 that the Chief Minister of West Bengal has recognised more than 10,000 madrassas which are privileged to receive funds from Saudi Arabia and made their degree eligible for a Government job, money comes from Saudi and in those madrassas, Wahhabi bigotry is taught. 

 

In the recent past, the Chief Minister started several Islamic city projects where Islamic people are taught also started a project to establish an Islamic city in West Bengal. It’s evident that Chief Minister has also declared various types of stipends for the Imams of mosques but no such stipends were declared for Hindus primarily. Janet Levy has given many examples around the world where terrorism, religious fanaticism, and crime cases started increasing as the Muslim population increased.With increasing population, a separate Sharia law is demanded at such places, and then finally it reaches the demand of a separate country.

 

Author and activist Taslima Nasreen once became a reason to test the ground reality for West Bengal. In 1993, Taslima Nasreen wrote a book ‘Lajja’ on the issue of atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh and forcibly making them Muslims. 

 

After writing the book, she had to leave Bangladesh. The author settled in Kolkata considering that she will be safe there as India is a secular country and the Constitution also provided the freedom of expression. Eventually experienced the nightmare that Taslima Nasreen had to face a riot-like situation against her in 2007 in Kolkata. Even in a secular country like India, Muslims banned Taslima Nasreen with hatred. Fatwas issued to cut her throat on the secular land of India. 

 

Upholding the threat the author was also attacked several times in different cities of the country. But the secular Leftists never supported Taslima, not even the Trinamool Government of West Bengal because the Muslims would get angry and the vote bank would face shaking.

 

BJP supporters injured in a bomb attack by Trinamool goons.

 

That time first attempt was made in which Muslim organisations in West Bengal demanded the Islamic blasphemy law, raising questions on India’s secularism and action of secular parties. 

 

Janet Levy further wrote that for the first time in 2013 some fundamentalist Maulanas of Bengal started demanding a separate ‘Mughalistan’. In the same year riots broke out in Bengal in which houses and shops of hundreds of Hindus were looted and many temples were also destroyed by rioters under the safe shelter of the Government and police. After the 2021 Vidhan Sabha election, the Hindus of West Bengal have been facing the same or even worse situation. 

 


 It is evident from the aftermath of the election result in West Bengal that not only riots but to drive away Hindus, in districts where there are more Muslims, boycotting Hindu businessman. In the Muslim majority districts of Malda, Murshidabad, and North Dinajpur, Muslims do not even buy goods from Hindu shops. This is the reason why a large number of Hindus have started migrating from West Bengal like Kashmiri Hindus, here Hindus leaving their homes and businesses and moving to other places. These are the districts where Hindus have become a minority. 

 

Invoking such incidents Janet, stated that the demand for partition of Bengal from India will soon begin from the land of West Bengal. No demographic theorist interpreted the present demographic situation of West Bengal sabotaging Malthusian theory. 

 

Courtesy: Organiser (this article first published on June 29, 2021)

Read also:

The Muslim Takeover of West Bengal

By Janet Levy Published in American Thinker on Feb 22, 2015
By Prem Chandavarkar Published in https://premckar.medium.com/ on May 6, 2021
 
DO YOU THINK THE SITUATION HAS BEEN CHANGED IN BENGAL?

 


 

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

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Sunday, November 22, 2020

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

'Separatist' JNU Student leader Umar Khalid faced severe 'Bengal protest' in Kolkata programme.

Kolkata Against Umar Khalid

Huge Hindu Protest against ‘anti national’, ‘pro-Pakistani’ Umar Khalid frightened his Maoist friends really in Kolkata !

Nirapeksha Das | HENB | Kolkata | May 21, 2016:: Hundreds of nationalist Hindus including RSS cadres, VHP, Hindu Samhati, Hindu Mahasabha supporters and mainly BJP workers started gathering in front of the Bharat Sabha hall on Saturday afternoon to protest against the entry of Umar Khalid, a student from Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi to the Bharat Sabha hall in Kolkata. Claiming Khalid to be an ‘anti-national’, BJP and other protesters said that they would not allow him to enter into the prestigious hall related with Indian Freedom Movement. Khalid was scheduled to attend a programme organised by Naxalites under the banner of “Bastar Solidarity Network”.
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People who were travelling in various vehicles were severely inconvenienced after hundreds of Pro-Hindu activists shouted their slogans against Umar leading to heavy traffic congestion on the BB Ganguly street and Central Avenue on Saturday afternoon. The vehicles remained stranded from crossings to crossings.
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The “Nationalists of Kolkata” were raising the slogans, “Bharat Mata Ki Jai”, “Go Back Umar Khalid”, “Kick Out Umar Khalid”, “Drive Out ISI Agents”, “Down Down Anti Nationalists”, “Save Kashmir, Save India”, “Break the Black Hands of Anti-Indians” etc. It was seen to follow the slogans of agitators by the passers be also.
A fueling Hindu solidarity against a few Maoists attending Bharat Sabha (India Association) Hall on some matters related to ‘Dalit Politics’ in the name ‘Tribal Welfare’ actually created a great mess for them and some invitees hided and fled the place by Central Metro Railway.
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A huge contingent of police was deployed at the spot to bring the situation under control. Police in the initiation level appealed the demonstrators to lift the agitations but they remained unmoved and went ahead with the protest. As the situation gradually went beyond control the police arrested the demonstrators and brought the situation under control.
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It may be mentioned here that in April, JNU had rusticated Umar in connection with an incident taking place inside the university campus in which ‘anti-national’ slogans were allegedly raised. The incident had created much furore across the country. Pro RSS and BJP leaders in the state were trying then to gain some political advantage out of these issues.
 
When they came to know that Umar was supposed to come to the city to attend a programme at Bharat Sabha hall they chalked out their political strategy in a war footing. And the strategy was seen successful.
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The State President of BJP, Dilip Kumar Ghosh (just own the Kharagpur Sadar Assembly seat in recent election) somewhat challenged Omar Khalid by saying, “I know that you have come to Kolkata, but don’t dare to shout -‘Pakistan Jindabad’; the result will be fatal”.
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The city has already seen similar unrest in Jadavpur University few days ago when a clash broke out between the ABVP activists and the students belonging to the Naxlite influenced and foreign funded ultra left  groups over the screening of film – “Buddha in a Traffic Jam” (get some critiques here).  Some students from the ultras had alleged that some of the ABVP supporters allegedly molested them when the trouble broke out inside the campus. ABVP also organised a rally from Golpark to Jadavpur to counter students’ rally to show out their strength and denied all the allegations of leftists.
 …BSN -The Anti National Way.
 
It is reported that the Programme of Khalid was initially scheduled at Muktangan in South Kolkata. But, apprehending a severe agitation in that region in view of growing strength of BJP-ABVP activists there,  police advised them to shift in North Kolkata.  Consequently, a programme of Hindu Mahasabha in the same venue on same date was cancelled by the authorities concerned to facilitate the Khalid’s prog which enraged another bunch of protests from the Mahasabha workers.
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It is reported that Khalid stealthily entered the hall 2 hours before the program was scheduled. The program was supposed to start at 5 pm, but the police took Umar inside the hall before 3 pm. After the programme was over in Bharat Sabha Hall, police cordoned a safe journey for Khalid towards his destination.
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The arrested BJP workers were released by the police at night after Khalid reached his desired destination.
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It is strange that Kolkata police is helping a traitor JNU student leader under trail for his divisive programmes in Bengal capital in a very objectionable way to suppress the voice of the nationalist people here.
 
Such discriminatory treatment will lead a total denial and more staunch protest of Bengal people against Maoist and anti-Hindu, anti-National perpetrators in coming days, experts opine.

Courtesy: Hindu Existence / The links used above.