The Real Reason why ?Jai Shri Ram? repulses Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal politics is again charged up (indeed negatively as West Bengal has long forgotten positive politics) with different types of slogans. While West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is hypersensitized by ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogan, she & her followers sloganeer ‘Jai Bangla’ in spite of ‘Jai Bangla’ being the National Slogan of Bangladesh. West Bengal CM hailed Bangladesh even on the platform of Netaji Jayanti Celebration at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, on January 23. While it is true that Netaji worked for Undivided India & Netaji’s Bengal was Undivided Bengal, Bangladesh has not kept Netaji as one of her National Heroes. On the other hand, Mamata Banerjee tries every possible way to communicate her will to associate West Bengal more with Bangladesh than with rest of BHARATVARSHA.

The news that created nationwide sensation is—West Bengal CM refused to deliver a speech on Netaji Jayanti Celebration at Victoria Memorial. While a section of people marked her behaviour as an insult to the immortal legend, she refused to admit such charge. Banerjee defended her side claiming—before attending Netaji Jayanti Celebration at Victoria Memorial, she had already paid her tributes to Netaji on behalf of GOWB. She put the blame on BJP saying BJP’s political slogans were raised at a Government program which disturbed her.

Out of 3 different slogans raised at Victoria Memorial, ‘Jai Shri Ram’ was the only one which could possibly be marked by her as a ‘BJP slogan’, the other two being ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’ & ‘Jai Hind’. Why does Mamata Banerjee feel so allergic about Ram Naam is a question that intrigues many. ‘Jai Shri Ram’ has been the slogan for Indians irrespective of Religion. However, why it’s being perceived by some as BJP’s political slogan is a different issue. Ramchandra is not only Religion in India, he is the Symbol of the socio-political identity of Indian Man. Ram & BHARATVARSHA are inseparably synonymous. Then why should ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogan haunt Mamata Banerjee so acutely? We’d try to derive the real probable reason.

There exists consistent effort to belittle Shri Ram in West Bengal for decades. Trend thereof got set by Communists & continued more vigorously in Banerjee era. In the last 10 years, Raghuveer Shri Ramchandra has been described as a Nomadic Character in Class VI Text Book of West Bengal Govt Schools. The book describes the word ‘Ram’ in Sanskrit to mean ‘Roaming’ & falsely claims that the Sanskrit word ‘Ram’ has evolved from the English word ‘Roaming’ since both mean the same— wandering. The book thus manipulatively tried to establish a false narrative that Ram was a wanderer, a Nomadic who entered our land & gradually defeated the original inhabitants of this land. The History Text Book of Class VI, titled “Otit O Oitihyo” (Past & Heritage) vilifies Ram without mentioning any scholarly reference of Valmiki Ramayana. But why vituperation of Shri Ram in West Bengal? The answer lies in the History of the State.

The Historical perspective of West Bengal’s creation lies in the original plan of Muslim League to include Undivided Bengal Province in the then East Pakistan during Partition of Undivided India in 1947. Undivided Bengal then was an interesting place with 41.20% Hindus & 55.65% Muslims during 1941 Census & 42.38% Hindus & 56.48% Muslims during the 1951 Census. A consorted effort of Dr Syamaprasad Mookerjee along with other eminent personalities of Bengal created West Bengal as a state of India for Hindus of Bengal. WB was included in India as it was impossible for Hindu Bangali to exist as a clan & culture in an Islamic land. However, the Muslim League was politically furious to lose a part of Undivided Bengal. Capturing Kolkata was their prime target. Muhammad Ali Jinnah fondly desired to include the second most prosperous city of the then British Empire in Pakistan. Moreover, Jawaharlal Nehru too didn’t mind to hand whole of Bengal over to Pakistan & so wanted the Britishers too. (Why Nehru & Britishers wanted so are two separate issues.) Hence, though West Bengal was created as a Hindu Homeland for Hindu Bangalis, Muslim League always had an eye on this State. As they lost the battle of grabbing Undivided Bengal under Islamic Rule in 1947, the war continued. They kept on dreaming to capture West Bengal any time later ‘by hook or by crook’.

Muslim League descendants set vicious pact with West Bengal’s State Legislature. Pact-setting was hassle-free as West Bengal got infested by Communism from the early Sixties. Communist Party of India vociferously argued in favour creation of Islamic Pakistan as a prime prerequisite for India’s Freedom. Indian Communists’ favouritism for Muslim League, hence, is no fiction. Islamists kept on entering West Bengal from Bangladesh through 2216.7 Km long WB-BANGLADESH border & Communists in West Bengal left a blind eye towards that. They indirectly facilitated silent demographic change of Hindu Homeland West Bengal. Steady infiltration of Islamists across Indo-Bangladesh border was a part of guerrilla tactics of Muslim League descendants to capture West Bengal ‘by crook’. These Islamists are the influential force that works behind vituperation of Shri Ram. Why would Islamists care to denigrate Shri Ram? Why not? Shri Ram is an antidote of radical Islamic monoculture.

Maryada Purushottam Bhagwan Shri Ram is worshipped as the ideological icon of Bharatiya Purush. Shree Ram is one who’s able, gallant, strong, strategic, inclusive, disciplined & socially responsible. He is poised to dedicate everything personal for collective social wellbeing. Shree Ram is one who committed a number of mistakes, but never disowned the charges thereof. Maryada Purushottam is the very basis of masculine Hindu Society. “Hare Rama Hare Rama, Rama Rama Hare Hare, Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare” chants every common man of Bengal. Many of them received RAM MANTRA as their DIKSHA MANTRA too. In presence of such an icon, the ideological paradigm shift of common Bengali society towards Islam would be impossible. Hence, in West Bengal, both Communists & their successor Mamata Banerjee have displayed strong apathy towards Shri Ram. Shri Ram appeared as an ideological obstacle for their consorted Islamization agenda.

Not only spiritual strength, but Lord Ram also iconizes immense physical strength, heroism & gallantry. If a common man tries to possess these qualities, it would not be favourable for radical Islamists. Physically strong men would not easily be subjugated and/or indoctrinated, nor would it be a cakewalk to launch an Islamic-style genocide against them. Hence, in February 2018, West Bengal’s Education Minister Partha Chatterjee stated that Lathikhela as Physical Education won’t be allowed in WB’s schools. He termed Lathikhela as ‘Religious Fanaticism’. Communists too discouraged Bengali tradition of Kusti, Lathikhela & physical fitness. Why? Perhaps to make common Bengali men necessarily feeble & timid. The same tradition is repeated by Mamata Banerjee’s legislature too.

Muslim League descendants who are still poised to capture West Bengal are radical in nature. Shri Ram is a perceived threat to them. While Communists paved the path of their entry into the State, Mamata Banerjee has taken the dangerous route of directly appeasing this set of people who help her in winning Elections. They provided illegal infiltrators into West Bengal who constituted her vote bank. In lieu of that, they wanted gradual socio-politico-cultural Islamization of West Bengal as the continuation of their original plan of grabbing Undivided Bengal Province. Politically motivated Communist grooming for last 6 decades hypnotized Bangali Bhadrolok against their core religious-cultural identity as Hindu. As a result, they either turned dwarf-enough to have failed to identify the imminent danger of radical Islam in the State or ignored it in lieu of silver tonic. While Communists appeased Islamist lobby subtly & prepared the ground fertile for them, Mamata Banerjee turned unapologetically aggressive in appeasement. In Mamata Banerjee’s regime, the Bengali Language got aesthetically disfigured by reckless insertion of Arabic & Urdu words in Bengali vocabulary.

Govt of West Bengal officially endorsed phonetic, spiritual & qualitative distortion of Bangla Bhasha by including the distorted format of the language in School Syllabus. Islamists & Mamata formed a symbiotic coherence. It would be relevant to remind readers about the recent event of October 2018 where Imams’ Association of West Bengal wanted a Muslim Police Commissioner in Kolkata & a 100% rise in Imams’ Allowances. During Covid pandemic, Imams suggested lockdown might continue during Eid-ul-Fitr & also demanded to celebrate Bakri Eid unhindered in spite of the pandemic. For each such demand, the Clergy conferred to the Press & de facto tried to dictate terms by writing letters to the CM prompting her about Governmental decisions.

In practice, West Bengal thus turned into a Clergy-controlled State in Banerjee era. Imams dared as they complemented Banerjee by creating a winning vote bank for her. Hence, it is Banerjee’s accountability to this patron lobby that compels her to display irritability towards ‘Jai Shri Ram’. Ramji & Radical Islam belong to different ideological paradigms & cannot gel together. ‘Jai Shri Ram’ is a slogan for people-centric RAMRAJYA. However, those who patronize Clergy-controlled, indoctrination-oriented KHILAFAT, cannot hail Shri Ramchandra.