#Marichjhapi - A bizarre example of fake news
The Left Front government, which ruled Bengal from 1977 to 2011, maintains there was no massacre of the refugees. Unofficial accounts, novels and research papers circulated over the years have put the death toll from the alleged
The Left Front government, which ruled Bengal from 1977 to 2011, maintains there was no massacre of the refugees. Unofficial accounts, novels and research papers circulated over the years have put the death toll from the alleged
massacre at anything between “a few hundred” to “over 1,000.”
Chief minister Jyoti Basu told the state assembly in February 1979 that only two people died when refugees attacked policemen while they were being evicted for encroaching land and destroying the mangrove vegetation
Chief minister Jyoti Basu told the state assembly in February 1979 that only two people died when refugees attacked policemen while they were being evicted for encroaching land and destroying the mangrove vegetation
of the Sunderbans. Before the alleged killings, Basu wrote to Morarji Desai, the then Prime Minister accusing two Janata Party legislators, including Haripada Bharati, and a Member of Parliament of helping the refugees. A year later, when the BJP was formed.
Bharati ,was made the first president of its Bengal unit.
Courtesy: Suranjana Roy Bhattacharya.
Courtesy: Suranjana Roy Bhattacharya.
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