Planning to Visit a Temple, Clicking your Pictures and Posting them Online? You might end up in Jail

It isn’t a good time to be a Hindu in West Bengal. For all of Mamata’s fiery rhetoric, she has completely and willingly sold her soul to the devil and surrendered her administration to Islamist elements. Communal riots used to be unheard of in West Bengal, but in the last 5-6 years, not a month goes by when news of Jihadi mobs rampaging through Hindu households doesn’t make headlines.

Given our Media’s secular preferences, it is only violence of the scale that occurred at Malda or Dhulagarh or Basirhat that gets reported because it is too big to be ignored. Countless other cases are given a quiet burial by the state administration, pliant media and an emasculated police force.

Be that as it may, far tougher being a BJP/RSS supporting Hindu in Mamata’s Bengal these days. Her political relationship with Modi and BJP government has completely soured, to the extent that day and night Mamata cooks up a new alliance to combat BJP. From creating anti- BJP alliances to intimidating BJP’s supporters to physically eliminating BJP’s cadre, Mamata will leave no stone unturned in ousting BJP from the scene.

With Bengalis having spurned the Communists and Congress being a spent force in the country, Mamata knows that the sole challenge to her power comes from the BJP whose star is on the ascendant.

That is perhaps the reason why BJP is going all out after every institution and individual that views BJP sympathetically and can be a potential BJP voter. BJP workers are routinely killed with impunity by TMC workers, most recently in North Dinajpur. In March this year, Mamata’s wrath fell on schools affiliated to RSS, such as Saraswat Shishu Mandir. There were reports that she found the schools to be fanning religious intolerance and would shut down around 125 of them. Unsurprisingly, many of Bengal’s medieval era Madrassas did not draw Mamata’s ire.

And then recently, reports emerged that Kolkata Police had filed a case against DU professor and RSS Vicharak Rakesh Sinha for promoting communal disharmony and attempting to hurt a community’s feelings. Incidentally, Prof. Rakesh Sinha is the fourth person to be accused of inciting violence in the aftermath of Basirhat riots. 3 of the 4 persons thus accused belong to BJP/RSS backgrounds.

It is pertinent to note that Basirhat riots had mobs of Islamists rampage through Hindu homes, killing Hindus and destroying Hindu shops and houses and not RSS/Sangh workers leading Hindu mobs on Muslim establishments.

What makes Prof. Rakesh Sinha’s case interesting is that it appears that a man in West Bengal found the professor inciting violence by posting picture of himself and his aged mother at the Mahakaleshwar Jyotirling in Ujjain on Social media. Perhaps it is this idol worship that people in Mamataland found distasteful.

Another picture posted by Prof. Rakesh Sinha pertains to him receiving an award from President Pranab Mukherjee. Perhaps Followers of Mamata was outraged by an award being bestowed upon an RSS Vicharak.

The last pictured posted by the Professor is one with Sarsanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat. Understandably, Mamata’s hackles were raised upon seeing a picture of the RSS Supremo. Interestingly, Prof. Rakesh Sinha has not been to Bengal in the last two years.

Jokes aside, Mamata knows that BJP is gaining ground in her home state and is bound to put up a fight in the next assembly elections. She is therefore targetting select individuals to take the wind off BJP’s sails.

Rakesh Sinha said “The FIR has been lodged against me in Kolkata without any evidence and registered without any annexture. Mamata Banerjee wants to silence her opponents and this mentality needs to be crushed. Freedom of Expression is under threat and she is using the police and administration as the B-team of TMC,”

It is also pertinent to note that BJP leaders Kailash Vijaywargiya and Roopa Ganguly have been served notices accusing them of child trafficking by Bengal CID. Unfortunately for her, her repressive actions seem to be only strengthening the BJP and its supporters. Prof. Rakesh Sharma for example has pledged to fight Mamata’s repressive tactics till his last breath.

Mamata Bannerjee it seems is Nero incarnate in the present times. While Bengal is burning from Gorkhaland to Basirhat, she is busy addressing mammoth rallies calling for BJP’s destruction. Power, it seems has gone to her head. Behind the facade of secularism and liberalism, Mamata is practising tactics that would put Dictators to shame. It is tragic that Bengal chose Mamata to replace Communists’ 3 decade of misrule.