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In 2016 itself, rioting broke out in Dhulagarh and later, in the 2017, there was another such incident at Baduria in Bashirhat area of North 24 Parganas district. Communal CauldronĪfter the 2016 Assembly elections, which saw the return of TMC to power and a drubbing to BJP, the state witnessed several incidents of communal violence. The ruling TMC played into the hands of communal forces further aggravating the situation. There were several attempts to create hostility toward the minority community by using the Durga Puja immersion schedule as occasions for heightening strife, under the pretext of the event coinciding with the Muslim solemn occasion of Muharram.

Durga Puja, the major festival of Bengal, became an early battleground of this attempt to sow discord among communities, destroying years of amity. The RSS stepped up its activities in the state. The process actually began after 2011 when BJP and the larger Sangh Parivar openly started using every opportunity to communalise politics. BJP and TMC are playing out this game of death as they fight to create and demarcate political space amongst themselves. Since Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, came to power in 2011, political violence escalated, mostly led by the ruling party’s cadres against the Left.īut, in recent months, an even more dangerous turn has taken place as the new political contender, the Bharatiya Janata Party, seeks to gain power, riding on divisive and toxic politics.

This dark past had been vanquished and buried during 34 years of Left Front rule from 1977 to 2011. Kolkata – Horrendous memories of the communal violence that marred Bengal at the time of India’s Partition and Independence are reviving among people today as the state gears up for what could be a watershed Assembly election.