At least 15 temples, 100 Hindu houses vandalised, looted for hours in
Brahmanbarhia
http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2016/10/30/at-least-15-temples-100-hindu-houses-vandalised-looted-for-hours-in-brahmanbarhia
To,Shri
Banwarilal Purohit,Hon’ble
Governor of Assam,Raj
Bhawan,Kharghuli,
Guwahati-781004Dated:
Guwahati, 31 October 2016Your
Excellency,Warm
greetings from the Patriotic People’s Front Assam
(PPFA).We
would like to bring to your kind attention some of the
recent misleading and manipulative statements by some
individuals and organizations on the Citizenship (Amendment)
Bill 2016 issue. We are shocked that these groups of vested
interests are trying to communalise the issue instead of
helping to find an amicable solution.The
extremely volatile utterances targeting the Hindu minority
community of Assam is deplorable and condemnable to say the
least. We are from this land of glorious civilization &
culture and we feel that our spirit should be that of
accommodation of Hindu, Buddhists, Christians, Sikhs and
other religious minorities who have had to face extreme
suppression in erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and
also West Pakistan and have been the true victims of
partition of India. We would like to take this opportunity
to highlight the historical truth that cannot and should not
be forgotten and which will attempt to build an honest
perspective on the issue of who is a ‘foreigner’ in
Assam (India) which has been a touchy and thorny issue since
long.
Hence,
we must all look back and see what transpired in 1942 when
Mahatma Gandhi called for the 'Quit India' movement.
The Muslim League raised another slogan 'Divide India
And Quit'. In 1946, the 'Pakistan' demand of
Muslim league, supported by the undivided Communist Party of
India (CPI), was accompanied by 'Direct Action' or
the violent communal riots like the 'Great Calcutta
killing' where nearly 5000 people were killed or
massacred in only 4 days. Assam's eminent poet Amulya
Barua was one of the victims in that killing field. History
bears witness to the fact that Muslims of undivided India
that followed the ideology of Muslim League and who wanted a
separate homeland for the Muslims were granted Pakistan and
thus they became ‘foreigners’ to Indians. In fact the
moment they created a foreign land for themselves they lost
their rights to get into India again without passports or
related legal documents. So, post 15 August 1947 India, all
those who demanded and chose to live in Pakistan (including
East Pakistan) was legally foreigners. However,
history is also witness to the fact that the minority
Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists who were left behind in
Pakistan were continuing to face brutal suppression at the
hands of the new non-secular government, which prompted the
Prime Minister of Independent India Jawaharlal Nehru to
issue a historic statement in Parliament that non-Muslims
would be safe and secure in Pakistan as both the new nations
pledged to be good and friendly neighbours. However, Nehru
also declared in the Parliament that if, in future,
non-Muslims felt unsafe and insecure in Pakistan due to
religious or communal persecutions, they would be always
welcome in India and they would not be treated as
'foreigners' in India. It
is indeed a matter of great satisfaction that the Union
government in New Delhi has taken steps lately to provide
shelter to these 'Victims of Partition' all over the
country following a process of equal distribution. In fact,
it is a long pending moral responsibility which India should
have shouldered much earlier (soon after Nehru made the
promise in the Parliament).But
better late than never, and we must all support the
government’s action to give citizenship rights to the
victims of Partition who have taken shelter in India from
Pakistan and Bangladesh till 2014. We must not forget that
among these people are many whose ancestors also fought and
sacrificed their lives along with many others for an
independent India, which has made us free citizens of an
independent nation today. Let all of us be grateful to
them.We
are also fully aware that since the formation of Bangladesh
and the assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975,
Bangladesh made Islam the State religion setting into motion
the persecution of minority non-Muslims. In Bangladesh, the
Hindus include Bengali, Rajbongshi, Hajong, Adivasi,
Jayantiya and Bishnupriya communities, Buddhists
(represented by Chakmas) and some Assamese people also, who
fled to the Chittagong hill areas during the Burmese
invasion. The Christians include Bengali, Garo, Khasi and
Adivasi people. All these people became the victims of
'Pakistan Plan' & 'Partition’ and had to
therefore live in a 'foreign land,’ for the creation
of which they were not at all responsible.So,
under no circumstances these people can be termed as
'foreigners'. The foreigners are those who created
the 'foreign land’ in the name of religion, but again
these are the same group of people who are infiltrating into
India, the country they hated to live in, before 1947 for
reasons best known to them. If the history of Partition is
properly studied, we can clearly understand who these
‘Foreigners’ are and who are the actual 'Victims of
Partition' and who came to India to protect their
religions, cultures and their lives. However,
we have no intention of communalizing the issue but we want
to provide a clear understanding of how history unfolded
lest some vested interests and parochial mindsets for their
own narrow political gains and cheap mileage would continue
to resort to disturb the peace and tranquil atmosphere of
Assam. There is a need for a solution to this vexed issue
and we would fully agree if those that have been truly
victimized owing to Partition and religious persecution are
given a place not just in Assam but in all other States of
India, a country where the underlying tenets of democracy
are tolerance, secularism and freedom of religion, faith,
practice and freedom of expression.
Finally,
we also raise our voices for a concrete refugee policy for
India so that we can deal with the issue of immigrants
logically and legally. We sincerely believe India should
sign the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention. Moreover,
our government has to ratify the 1967 Protocol relating to
the status of refugees.
With
Regards,Dhirendra
Nath Chakrabarty (Guwahati)Dr
Rabin Dev Choudhury (Guwahati)Giripada
Dev Choudhury (Guwahati)Dr
Nirode K Barooah (Cologne, Germany)Dr
AK Rai (BHU, Varanasi)Rupam
Barua (Gauripur)Nava
Thakuria (Nalbari)Jagadindra
Ray Choudhury (Barpeta)Anup
Sarma (Guwahati)Manju
Bora (Guwahati)Pranjal
Saikia (Guwahati)Utpal
Dutta (Guwahati)Dipannita
Jaiswal (Guwahati)Jitul
Sonowal (Guwahati)Bobita
Sarma (Guwahati)Bidhayak
Das (Bangkok, Thailand)Vavani
Sarmah (Washington, USA)Kalyan
Dutta-Choudhury (Berkeley, USA) Pranab
Kr Sharma (Guwahati)Prasenjit
Chakrabarty (Agartala)Dr
Subhra Kinkor Goswami (Nalbari)Gourishankar
S Hiremath (IIT, Kharagpur)Anjanil
Kashyap (New Delhi)Jahnabi
Goswami (Guwahati)Girindra
Kumar Karjee (Guwahati)Bibekananda
Choudhury (Guwahati)Ravindranath
(Dhemaji)Namrata
Dutta (Guwahati)Bhagawat
Pritam (Guwahati)Braja
Jyoti Sharma (Nagaon)Tarali
Chakrabarty (Guwahati)Ujjal
Saikia (Tezpur)Akhyamala
Bora (Dergaon)Gitika
Talukder (Colombo, Srilanka)Arun
Sarkar (Dudhnoi)Nripen
Dutta (Chamata)Onkareshwar
Pandey (Noida)
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