BIJON SETU HINDU SAGDHU MASSACRE: THE BARBARISM OF CPI (M) 🧵(THREAD)

THE OVERVIEW

- Attacks on Hindu saints or revered personalities are sadly not uncommon in Bharat. The three decades of communist rule in West Bengal have been a nightmare for the Hindus of the state. The Bijon Setu massacre stands out as one such episode, although it remains relatively unknown to the outside world

- The massacre of Ananda Marg Monks, and its subsequent normalization, has gone largely unnoticed and unrecorded in history. These tragic incidents are absent from history books and seldom discussed by so-called secular and liberal individuals.

THE HISTORY OF ANANAD MARG

- The 'Path of Bliss', also known as Anand Marg or officially Ānanda Mārga Pracāraka Saṃgha, is a global socio-spiritual organization established in Jamalpur, Munger, Bihar, India, in 1955 by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar, also known as Shrii Shrii Anandamurti.

- It is also the philosophy and lifestyle advocated by Sarkar, characterized as a practical approach to personal development and societal transformation. It has a presence in over 180 countries worldwide.

-The Ananda Marg sect was a religious synthesis of Vedic philosophies and Tantrik rituals. THE BURNING FEAR

- The CPI(M) suspected that beneath the religiosity, the Margis harbored political ambitions. This suspicion and animosity led to recurrent assaults on the saffron-clad Margis, who consistently bore the brunt of the Left's hostility.

- In 1967, five Margis were murdered in Purulia. Two years later, the Coochbehar congregation of Margis was attacked. Then, in April 1990, five more Ananda Margis were reportedly murdered in Purulia, once again purportedly by CPM cadres.

1966 GENOCIDE OF HINDU SAINTS BY INDIRA GANDHI AND THE CURSE

1. THE IRON LADY OF INDIA-INDIRA GNADHI: THE DEVIL WITHIN

- It was on the 7th of November, 1966, the day of the Gopal Ashtami that a massacre of Hindu saints and seers was carried out in by the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi (alias Maimuna Begum), THE IRON LADY OF INDIA.

- While the secular Government report said that only 375 were killed but in actuality, 5000 Hindus were brutally massacred spraying bullets by Delhi Police and the bodies were removed from the site and buried in some unknown places. 2. THE BETRAYAL: AS THE GANDHIS ARE KNOWN FOR

- In the election year of 1966, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, was finding it very difficult to ensure her victory in the general elections. So she visited the famous Hindu saint Swami Karpatri and Acharya Vinoba Bhave to ask for their blessings on a single condition that if she wins and becomes the Prime Minister once again, she will immediately ban cow slaughter all over the country.

-Indira Gandhi kept cow slaughter ban as one of the main campaigning points in her electoral strategy. Owning to this she received massive support from Hindu groups.

- Months after she was installed as PM, Indira Gandhi found herself locking horns with devotees of holy cow. She backed out of her promise to the Hindu Saints and ignore the repeated pleases of Hindu organizations to ban cow slaughter.

Direct Action Day: The Valor of Gopal Patha and the Retribution of Hindus (Thread)🧵

“Quit or Die!” – Gandhi warns Hindus
Direct Action Day' was a call for a show of strength by the Muslim League. The secularist narrative, the Gem of Bharat MK Gandhi instead of condemning the perpetrators of violence, blames Hindu intellectuals and spiritual leaders, who were either far away from the scene or dead when the 'Great Calcutta Killings' took place.

THE PLANNING:
-Jinnah chose Kolkata (Calcutta) for his Direct-Action day because he wanted to have Kolkata in Pakistan. Kolkata was a major business city of India at that time, & Jinnah didn’t want to lose Kolkata!
The mission to Make Kolkata Hindu-free was given to Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who was Chief Minister of Bengal, & loyal to Jinnah. At that time, The Muslim population in the Bengal province was 54%, with a Muslim League government in power under Provincial Autonomy, 1935.

-Suhrawardy started to execute his plan on 16th August 1946. A strike was declared by him and all Muslims closed their shops & gathered in masjid. Muslim shops were marked to save them from being looted.
Some Muslims were seen looting Hindu shops in Red Cross uniforms.Suhrawardy assured the Muslim mobs, that he has instructed the Police to not come in the way of their mission.

-Suhrawardy took charge of the control room at Calcutta Police Headquarters at Lal Bazar and instructed the police not to take any action against the Muslim rioters. Police were sent where Hindus were fighting back.
THE EXECUTION:
-On the morning of 16 August 1946 over a lakh Muslim rallied the streets of Calcutta with lathis, spears, daggers, knives, firearms, empty soda bottles, kerosine, rags soaked in petrol etc. A Hindu shop of arms and weapons near the Muslim League office was attacked first. it was looted and burnt to ashes. The owner and his employees were beheaded.

-Hindus were chopped down like vegetables. The streets were strewn with dead bodies, small children were hurled down roofs, some boiled in oil, others burnt alive. Many Hindu women and young girls were kidnapped and taken away as sex slaves.

-In Metiaburz area, now known as Mini Pakistan, about 600 Odiya labourers were beheaded by League leader Syed Abdullah Farooqi and his mob inside Keshav Ram Cotton Mill. Two labourers, who had their hands chopped off, escaped.

-On 16th August thousands of Hindus were killed & Hindu women were raped. Killings continued on 17th August The unabated killings resulted in over 10,000 killed in Calcutta alone, 15,000 injured.Records say that many bodies were thrown into underground sewers, the Ganga and city canals. Actual number of casualties must be higher.

PRAFULLA CHANDRA CHAKI: A FADED HISTORY OF A REVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM FIGHTER (THREAD)🧵

-On 1st May, we celebrate World Labour Day, but on that day, an Indian nationalist and staunch believer in revolutionary ideas sacrificed his life for the freedom of India, whose contribution to the nation has been fading into oblivion.

-Prafulla Chandra Chaki, also known as Dinesh Chandra Roy was born on 10th December 1888 in Bogra, a district in present-day Bangladesh (a part of the Bengal Presidency during the British Raj)

-After completing his primary education he moved to Rangpur with his elder brother Pratap Chandra Chaki. While he was at Rangpur, he met Barin Ghosh, one of the founding members of the Jugantar Bengali weekly. Ghosh convinced Prafulla Chaki to move to Calcutta to join the Jugantar group.

-Prafulla’s first assignment was to shoot Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (1854-1935), the first Lieutenant-Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Unfortunately, the plan did not materialize, as there was a last-minute change in Sir Joseph’s itinerary.

-Prafulla was given yet another opportunity, when he and Khudiram Bose were picked to assassinate Kingsford, the Magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose carried out what is known as the Muzaffarpur Bomb Case on 30th April 1908.

-On that day of excution of the plan both of them were waiting with bombs at the gates of the European Club in anticipation of the arrival of Kingsford’s carriage. Unfortunately, the carriage was not carrying Kingsford; instead, the wife and daughter of Mr Pringle Kennedy, a leading pleader at Muzaffarpur Bar, were travelling in it.

-Both Prafulla and Khudiram Bose fled the scene and took different routes to escape. Prafulla reached Samastipur from where he was supposed to take train for Mokama.

-However, Nandalal Banerjee, a police officer travelling in the same compartment, became suspicious of Prafulla and attempted to arrest him on the platform of the Mokama Railway Station. The fearless and young Prafulla, to evade arrest, shot himself with his revolver. It is said that his head was severed and sent to Kolkata to be identified by Khudiram Bose, who had also been captured at that time.

-The shameless Mahatma Gandhi said to some media houses that this violence would not grant India independence and expressed regret over the deaths.

-Bal Gangadhar Tilak praised the efforts of Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki in his Marathi newspaper Kesari and called for India's independence. Immediately after the publication of his statement in the newspaper, the British colonial government arrested him on charges of sedition.