An identical communal violence had also broken out in the Joynagar area in South 24 Parganas on June 22. Here four Muslim teachers of West Gabberia High School had demanded that a large room of the school building should be allocated by the school management to offer namaz on all Fridays. When the management refused to accept their unreasonable demand, the four teachers immediately contacted local Muslim clerics and asked them to intervene. Within hours thousands of armed Muslim mob gathered outside the school premises and attacked Hindu students and teachers. They ransacked and damaged the school building and then they entered West Gabberia village and stabbed Hindu villagers. Joynagar in South 24 Parganas is a Muslim dominated subdivision where West Gabberia is a lone Hindu majority village.
No doubt, a deep rooted conspiracy has been hatched in these two Muslim majority districts bordering Bangladesh to make them exclusive Muslim districts so that the areas could be a part of Islamic Bangladesh.
(VSK, Kolkata)
