WHAT A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT!
KAJAL CHATTERJEE
The venom of a person, holding a Constitutional Chair, threatening the very citizens of his governed state and India, through the demeaning terminology "Miya Muslims", is least surprising.
After all his political and ideological camp not only upholds the parochial divisive muscle-flexing ideology of "Hindi-Hindu-Hindustan" in this diverse multi-religious multi-lingual secular democratic land of all, the hate-mongering leader concerned is also notorious enough for attacking Muslims in every possible opportunity without any basis just like his accusation of "conspiracy" hatched by the Muslim vendors to increase the prices of vegetables(few months ago)!
When a person holding a Constitutional Chair is required to be appearing and acting absolutely neutral while performing his/her duties towards citizens of all demographic credentials, how openly and nakedly can he paint Bengali Muslims of the state as "villain" in regular intervals! So the person who openly acts against the Constitutional spirit of India would naturally can't digest the presence of "Miya Muslims" in front of his prejudiced eyes!
Just because of the increasing might of these folks in various Constitutional chairs blaming Bengali Muslims for increase of price of vegetables in Assam, equating victims of communal pogrom with puppies trampled under cars, identifying criminals with their dress hinting at a particular community, describing a constituency of India as "mini Pakistan" /"where majority is in the minority"; urgent necessity arrives to protect the Idea Integrity Unity Secularism and the Constitutional ethos of India from the marauding forces so as to save this country from moral disintegration.
When a mere 2-MP party captures the imagination of the nation through Riot-provoking Rath Yatra, rabid Islamophobia and association with the illegal barbaric demolition of a mosque and thereafter reaches the throne of national governance within 7-8 years ; when a holder of a high Constitutional Chair, supposed to represent each and every Indian, repeatedly character assassinates the Muslim citizens of Bharat Mata as "infiltrators with lots of children" - - - it is most natural that in that very divisive toxic muscle-flexing sectarian environment, choicest abuses would regularly get directed towards a section of the citizens of Assam and India!
So there lies absolutely no wonder when young Sabir Mallik - - Bengali Muslim poor scrap collector - - gets lynched to death in another "Double Engine" Haryana just on the accusation of his alleged beef consumption!
Often it seems that to take birth as a Bengali or a Muslim or a poor has itself turned to be a "great sin" in "New India"! But Sabir had committed all 3 "sins" collectively being a poor Bengali Muslim, that too displaying audacity to venture outside West Bengal! Hardly a month ago innumerable poor Bengali Muslim hardworking honest labourers had to escape Odisha and return to West Bengal! Has the combo of speaking Bangla and professing Islam tantamount to "anti-nationalism" in "Viswa Guru" with the Bengali Muslims guaranteed to get branded as "Bangladeshis" and destined to get kicked out or lynched to death specially outside West Bengal!
What norms of law and order have been established by the "conscientious" Saffron camp governing the "Double Engine" states! Even if Sabir had indeed consumed beef, by which Constitutional legal moral judicial right can the "cow vigilantes" dare to take law in their hands already tinged with blood of Mohammad Akhlaque Junaid Pehlu Khan Asgar Ali Tabrez Ansari and innumerable other innocents! And far from getting ashamed of their failure in preventing such fatal muscle-flexing communal exercise, the saffronites dare to act as "holy cow" and express audacity to question law and order in West Bengal and even display temerity to demand President's Rule in the state!
Yes thanks to the mayhem against Bengalis and Muslims throughout "New India" and "Double Engine" states; not only the vulnerable souls - - - rather the whole "Idea of India" also get fatally assaulted along with it's Constitution spirit, federal structure, secularism, democracy and diversity in linguistic religious and cultural front.
Last but not the least - - the harbingers of much zealously-shouted slogan of "Bangali brotherhood" which got coined overnight only when the opportunity of enjoying a relaxed Sunday evening Derby got snatched away by the West Bengal authorities in the wake of "protests" by the "moralistic women-friendly" brigade!
Will the "newly found" 'Sonar Pathar Bati' of "Bangali Brotherhood" (represented by Mohun Bagan-East Bengal "bonding" with now Mohammedan Sporting also being brought in the mix) walk the talk and all Bengalis unitedly protest the cold-blooded murder of poor scrap collector Sabir in "Double-engine" Haryana! Or Bengalis can engage in muscle-flexing of "Ghoti-Bangal Unity" to shout against fellow tribe only so as to take "political revenge" by latching on an universal social crime!