
Need for AFSPA in West Bengal
The ideological-communal polarisation of West Bengal by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamool Congress has bought the State to the brink of another Direct Action Day, with incidents of organised and planned violence occurring regularly against the hapless Hindu community.
Banerjee has polarised the State in an unprecedented manner, ripping apart the social fabric. Her form of communal (read Islamic) politics could bring the Jamaat e Islami cadres to shame.
Under her rule, even Durga Puja celebrations have been endangered in some places where Islamists objected to them.
A village in Birbhum district has been unable to celebrate and engage in festivities in order to “not antagonise the Muslims” for four years now.
Mamata’s hunger for power has made her res...