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Saswati Sarkar @sarkar_swati
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Dear @MamataOfficial pls cont 2 oppose celebration of Patel in Bengal. Patel had harmed Bengal & Bengalis, as also India and Indians repeatedly. 1) Demonised women revolutionaries Shanti and Suniti 2) Tried hard 2 defeat Subhas Bose’s Presidential re-election bid, failed (contd)
3) Patel was one of the main players in forcing Netaji to resign at Tripuri 4) Instructed by Birla, Patel orchestrated Netaji’s expulsion from Congress 5) Vallabhbhai Patel stopped Netaji from using the wealth bequeathed on the latter by Vittalbhai Patel
6) Patel had betrayed the naval mutiny. 7) Patel had ensured that many Hindu majority areas of Bengal go to East Pakistan rather than to India and that Bihari Muslim majority areas remain
7)Patel had stopped All India Radio 4m airing program on Netaji on his birthday in 1949 despite massive protests in Kolkata 8)Patel had also ensured that the commander of the Chattogram revolutionaries at Jalalabad Lokenath Bal doesnt get funding to produce a movie on Chattogram
References: 1), 7), 8) established in our article on Gandhi, Gandhians & Revolutionaries. Will be plugged shortly
2), 3) from any good book on freedom struggle, eg, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar’s 3 volumes on Indian Freedom Struggle, or Netaji-Patel correspondences in his Collected Works, Congress President
5) can be obtained from Leonard Gordon’s Brothers Against the Raj, and also from Netaji’s memoirs, Indian Struggle, 2), 3), 5) are well known
4) can be obtained from Birla-Patel correspondences reproduced in Medha Kudaisiya’s biography of G. D. Birla. She was given access to G. D. Birla’s Private papers by his family
6) has been shown in our article on Naval mutiny, will shortly be plugged. 7) in Joya Chatterjee’s Spoils of Partition
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