Via PTI
KOLKATA: The West Bengal BJP on Saturday gave a choice for “Marichjhapi Abhijan”, as its contributors plan to talk over with the tiny island of Marichjhapi on the subject of Sunderbans on January 31 to pay tribute to those who have been allegedly killed in police motion whilst looking to settle within the state, having fled Bangladesh throughout the Liberation Battle.
BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya instructed journalists right here that the backward caste mobile of the birthday party would adopt the march to Marichjhapi because it additionally seeks to remind the more youthful era concerning the “historical past of oppression at the displaced backward-caste Hindu Bengalis” throughout the Jyoti Basu-led Left Entrance regime.
The CPI(M) claimed that the saffron camp was once “concocting historical past” and no such incident came about.
Bhattacharya, speaking to journalists, stated, “The backward caste mobile of the BJP will on January 31 talk over with Marichjhapi, the place an unknown choice of migrant Hindus have been on this present day in 1979 killed via the police and lots of ladies gangraped.”
The birthday party would additionally take out rallies in more than a few districts of the state on that day, he stated.
Requested if the programme was once aimed toward profitable the accept as true with of backward caste communities, for the reason that Matuas have been on an agitation trail because of the lengthen in Citizenship (Modification) Act implementation, Bhattacharya asserted that “there was once no hidden schedule”.
“Our stand on giving citizenship to refugee Hindus and safety to Indian Muslims stays unchanged. We best wish to remind the existing era concerning the brutal homicide of loads throughout the police motion in Marichjhapi in 1979. Historical past can’t be erased,” he stated.
CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakraborty alleged that the BJP was once making an attempt to “distort historical past via flagging a topic which is not anything however a number of concocted lies”.
“They (BJP leaders) are looking to foment hassle via establishing such rallies. Folks of West Bengal is not going to fall prey to such efforts,” he added.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated that the BJP was once looking to “win over backward castes via harping on an previous factor”.
