West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has written a peace appeal that bears conspicuous reflection of Marxist narratives. Her allegation against the RSS with respect to the communal attack on Hindus in Murshidabad is a hallmark of such narrative, which the Marxists have been spinning ever since partition & independence, dominating the intellectual sphere of Bharat while they started taking Bengal into their fold from before independence. Mamata Banerjee, as if, harangued the principal opposition party for the West Bengal Government’s failure.
Avoiding alleviating the plight of the victims of Murshidabad, Banerjee’s attempt to vilify RSS in her peace appeal appeared to be a defensive approach in itself against the coercion she perhaps was facing from the Islamic communal forces of West Bengal. Not to forget that on April 10, an anti-Waqf Act protester in Kolkata stated that “as Didi is surviving at our mercy, we’ll paralyse Kolkata if she doesn’t handle our issues well” evincing her strain caused by the minority forces.
Her repetition of the ‘provocation’ theory too patently reflected the Marxist narrative in her peace appeal. Indirectly defending the communal vandals of Murshidabad she wrote, ‘These forces (indicating RSS) are using the backdrop of an unfortunate incident that happened on provocation.’ It is the Marxists & Communists who’d, ever since independence, brushed Islamic vandalism upon non-Muslims under the carpet or defended them under the garb of the ‘provocation theory’ stating that Muslims faced such provocations they couldn’t resist ending up vandalising lives, properties and women of others. Mamata, too, has adopted the Marxists’ argument. The ‘provocation theorists’ may mark anything as ‘provocation’ just like they marked a mere pre-Ramnavami procession passing by the Jame Masjid of Mothabari on March 25 as ‘provocation’. The same Jame Masjid wrote a letter to Mothabari Police Station during Durga Puja in 2018 to keep the Puja Mandap loudspeaker muted during the 5 times of namaz.
It’s not clear from her peace appeal which gesture she marked as ‘provocation’ for the communal vandals. Was a street surge of West Bengal’s Hindus in Ramnavami a provocation? Was worshipping Shri Ramchandra (as advised by Swami Vivekananda) in Jadavapur University a provocation? Madam CM did not substantiate. Even if all these appeared ‘provocation’ to a section of Islamists, wasn’t it the responsibility of the West Bengal Government to communicate to them that ‘right to religion’ was sacrosanct for all within the given periphery of Constitutional guidelines?
A 21-year-old Ijaz Momin was killed by police firing at Sajur More in Suti on April 11. If this incident turned out to be a ‘provocation’ for Muslims, it was the Government’s responsibility to convince them against earmarking the common Hindus as targets to vent out the rage at. While people might believe that the Murshidabad Police eventually fired at Ijaz Momin in a clash against the violent mob, the probability that the police fired a Muslim youth in order to provoke the Muslim mob against the common Hindus can’t be ruled out. Vandalism & pillage gained greater momentum from April 11 and reached the pinnacle on April 12. It is probable that to incite the mob against Hindus in general, an attack on a Muslim was a requisite that was implemented by the State Police. Such modus operandi for such an objective, if true, is suggestive of the presence of Jamaat-e-Islami behind such mayhem in apparent tandem with the local Police.
The Marxist narrative is also palpable from Mamata Banerjee’s depiction of the prejudiced attack only on Hindus’ properties and women in Murshidabad as a ‘riot’ while it was no ‘riot’ as Hindus didn’t retaliate. As the vandals tried to force the victims to convert to Islamism, Mamata Banerjee’s portrayal of such an incident as a ‘riot’ is amply reflective of the Marxist approach.
The unambiguous Marxist narrative that “a terrorist or a rapist or a criminal has no religion” was put forth by the West Bengal CM in her peace appeal. “Please remember that riots are created neither by Hindus, nor by Muslims riots are engineered by criminals.” Sane people display no apathy to accept such pleasant rhetoric provided criminals don’t be selective in picking up their targets. But in Murshidabad, all the victims were of a particular religion, leaving no scope to de-religionise the crimes committed by the criminals. Even if the criminals had no religion, the crimes definitely had.
It was shocking to note that the CM had written, “Those who create riots always come from outside and then go away.” Doesn’t riot-mongers’ exit from under the nose of the State Government reflect the incompetence of the State machinery? CM Mamata repeatedly implicated the BSF for letting infiltrators in while the locals of Murshidabad longed for permanent BSF camps in their periphery for protection. People themselves definitely have greater credibility than the people’s representative herself i.e. the Chief Minister.
Mamata Banerjee finished her peace appeal by quoting the second stanza of a song (the first stanza of which is our National Anthem) by Rabindranath Thakur, which was written from the perspective of Undivided Bharat. Under the influence of Marxist narratives, West Bengal CM failed to reckon & comprehend why didn’t Bharat adopt the second stanza in her National Anthem. Mamata Banerjee appears to have completely slipped into the grip of Marxists, converting TMC into a later version of CPM, a party which has been conclusively rejected by the people of West Bengal.
