Murshidabad district in West Bengal witnessed blood-chilling chaos on Friday, 11th of April as so-called protests against the recently passed Waqf (Amendment) Act turned into a rampage led by Islamist mobs. What began as post-Friday prayer gatherings soon spiraled into violence, with protesters torching vehicles, attacking trains, pelting stones at police, and vandalizing public infrastructure all under the pretext of dissent. The violence was most intense in the Suti and Samserganj areas, where large mobs blocked National Highway-12, disrupted traffic, and brought normal life to a standstill. A police van carrying prisoners was attacked, and even railway stations weren’t spared. According to reports, over 5,000 people blocked train lines, pelted stones at carriages, and forced the rerouting or cancellation of key trains like the Kamakhya–Puri Express and Nabadwip Dham Express.
Let’s be absolutely clear: this was not civil protest it was a full-fledged assault on democracy, driven by Islamist elements who seek to establish their hegemony in the nation. These Islamist mobs are not fighting for rights; they are waging ideological warfare against the Indian state.
Police personnel were brutally attacked. Stones and even crude bombs were hurled at law enforcement. This wasn’t merely unrest, it was a calculated show of brute force by Islamists emboldened by years of muslim appeasement by the TMC Government led by Mamta Banerjee.
Over 110 people have been arrested so far in connection with the violence, most of them from Murshidabad district alone. Internet services were suspended, and prohibitory orders remain in force. For over a decade now, Mamata has systematically cultivated a politics of blatant minority appeasement, where communal sensitivities are placed above national interest, and lawbreakers find indirect sanction as long as they fit her vote-bank equation. Her government has turned a blind eye to growing Islamisation in pockets like Murshidabad, Malda, and Basirhat.
While the Governor of West Bengal, C.V. Ananda Bose, strongly condemned the violence and demanded accountability, Mamata’s response was predictably muted. Her administration seemed more concerned about optics than justice. While state BJP leaders rightly slammed her as “India’s most failed CM,” Mamata Banerjee remained busy shielding her crumbling political fortress with the same old narrative of victimhood.
