Undoubtedly, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in Bengal, along with Assam, would change the face of the eastern part of Bharat, which had been experiencing slow growth due to continuous hindrances imposed by the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC Government. Bengal would certainly become, for the eastern part of Bharat, what Maharashtra and Gujarat are for the western part of Bharat in terms of growth, as it would play an important role in business with countries in Southeast Asia. Notably, Bengal’s location provides direct access to Southeast Asian countries via the Bay of Bengal, reducing shipping time and costs. Also, due to its abundance of agricultural products, Bengal is a very vital state for agro-exports. Though there are other important aspects for this victory, too.
The world has witnessed bloodshed over the last 2,000 years. There has hardly been a single century in which Mother Earth has not witnessed the inhuman acts of barbarians who destroyed civilisations and erased local cultures. One of the primary motives of these barbaric forces has always been to capture territories and destroy everything that comes on their path. Despite the so-called evolution of human civilisation and the advent of a global system, this invasion mindset has not changed. They have just changed their strategies.
How these invaders change the whole picture of a country, we can learn from the conversion of Lebanon, which was the only Christian-majority nation in West Asia till 20th century. But, after continuous infiltration and conversion, this has become a Christian-majority country to a Muslim-majority country. As a result, this country has become the safe haven of Islamist terrorist organisations like Hezbollah.
Europe today is going through instability due to the rapid rise of illegal immigration. The kind of illegal immigration happening in Europe is going to change the societies of European nations, as it happens everywhere. According to a paper published in the PSU research review, the Muslim population in 30 European countries will be in the majority. Among them, there are 13 European countries where the Muslim population will be majority between years 2085 and 2215: Cyprus (in year 2085), Sweden (2125), France (2135), Greece (2135), Belgium (2140), Bulgaria (2140), Italy (2175), Luxembourg (2175), the UK (2180), Slovenia (2190), Switzerland (2195), Ireland (2200) and Lithuania (2215). The 17 remaining countries will never reach a majority in the next 200 years. Even Bharat is not exempt from this challenge. Over the last 100 years, the demography of many Northeastern states were changed by colonial forces.
Having said this, those forces that divided the motherland in 1947 in the name of religion are still eyeing us. The demography of Bharat’s Eastern Frontier, from Assam to Bengal, is being deliberately altered through the sheltering and protection of illegal infiltrators. Many districts in lower Assam and the Barak Valley have become Muslim-majority due to large-scale infiltration. The same has happened in Bengal, where districts such as Murshidabad and Malda have also become Muslim majority. The problem is not a community but this illegality.
Undoubtedly, all this became possible because of the administrative failures of the Congress Governments that ruled Assam for decades, and the Congress-Left-TMC regimes that governed Bengal for many years. The irony is that despite being aware of this threat, Mamata Banerjee, who governed Bengal for the last 15 years, opposed the Central Government’s decision to extend the BSF’s jurisdiction from 15 km to 50 km along the border to curb infiltration and anti-national activities. It is equally disappointing that the Bengal Government itself failed to provide land for border fencing, leaving hundreds of kilometres of the border porous. Clearly, they placed vote-bank politics above national interest. Even the apex court had to say that Bharat is not a “Dharmshala.” Now that the BJP has formed the Government in both Bengal and Assam, one can hope that difficult days have arrived for illegal infiltrators and their patrons in Bharat. This battle against invasion must be dealt with a firm hand. It is not merely a fight to protect territory, but a struggle to preserve this great civilisation.
