West Bengal is an Indian state in the eastern part of the country, and the only one in India with an incumbent woman Chief Minister — Mamata Banerjee.
The region, which was the political heart of the Bengal Presidency during British Rule, was divided into East and West Bengal in 1947. Bengal was a hotbed of the Indian Independence movement and has remained one of the country’s great artistic and intellectual centres, being home to Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee as well as freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray.
Geographically, the state is happily situated with the Himalayas in the north and the Sundarbans in the south. It shares a roughly 2,200-sqkm border with Bangladesh (East Bengal at the time of Partition).
For the first 30 years, the Congress ruled Bengal, but made way for Left domination for the next 34 years. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress — a breakaway from the Congress — came to power.
Bengal, Tamil Nadu, and Punjab will always not go with the flow of the rest of the country politically speaking, they did that when Congress was the ruling party in Delhi, and are doing it now that BJP Is. I can see BJP winning in Telengana before Bengal.
PREMKUMAR, Sir, being one of the first to comment, you talk about a so-called hinduisation, which, if at all exists, is probably a small part of the whole process, in the sense that the whole world, if you are satisfactorily updated on the goings-on, is getting, very slowly, polarised, irreversibly, & unfortunately, on religious grounds, which, I believe strongly, is beyond yours or any single person’s, no matter how powerful, control, so what was destined to happen is actually happening, much to the dismay of some sections of society, irrespective of political influences & interventions. Leave the rest to The Almighty, if you believe in any, thank you.
In Bangla, we have le-Di kutta-s and now, Le-Li kutta-s, who are way more lelihAna than the poor leDi-s.
Ram se bada ram ka naam hope didi understands this…..
If mobilising people along caste lines like BSP, RJD, SP, RLD and mayavati asking Muslims to vote for her alliance what can be wrong in some other party asking Hindus to vote for it?
Author is misleading if he says Jai Shri Ram is about Hinduising anyone. For BJP and Amit Shah it is a tool towards creating Us versus Them narrative where none exists, creating a non-believer Raakshasi against whom the Hindus have to fight – end goal for them is always the same; sow the seeds of hatred and reap the electoral rewards; that is always the standard framework right from the days of so called Rath Yatra.
Only in some crazed minds a need for Hinduisation is felt; each one is Hindu based on his or her own belief system. We dont depend on a system of central authority like in Islam or Christianity to proclaim ourselves as good or bad Hindu. Hinudism afterall is different to different people and we detest the attempt of BJP/RSS to appropriate that and straight-jacket the same in the mould of the missionary religions. It is this ill-thought attempt we the non-Bhakts are resisting across India.
What if that is needed to defeat, in your words, “system of central authority like in Islam or Christianity” which is actively trying to do the same to us? or are you of the opinion that we should let it happen to us but not give it back to them ? Or maybe you just confer with Congress’ and TMC’s Muslim appeasement politics. Either way you are looking at the world with one eye closed and the other firmly intent on only hating Modi and RSS. You sir, are, willingly, half blind and half stupid.
Prem Kumar is what is generally understood as Taqiyya.