Show concern over violence in Bengal
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 28: Prominent citizens of J&K including intellectuals, social activists, retired judges have submitted a memorandum to President of India, Ram Nath Kovind through Lt. Governor of J&K, Manoj Sinha today expressing their serious concern over the attack on the nationalist people in West Bengal by the activists of TMC and illegal immigrants.
The memorandum said while the nation has been fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic, second wave which has all the contours of a bio -warfare, a vast section of fellow Indians and nationalists in West Bengal are tragically experiencing another onslaught perpetrated by the TMC and illegal immigrants. The violence orchestrated by the internal saboteurs and anti-nationals is morbidly reminiscent of the ethnic cleansing of minorities from Kashmir in 1990, the memorandum added.
It, while expressing serious concern over Bengal violence said it has as on date engulfed over 3000 villages and 70,000 nationalists in West Bengal and continues unabated. Majority of the targeted victims have been people from socially and economically underprivileged groups, including Scheduled Castes, STs and poor, it added.
The memorandum said ironically in a State where a woman is overseeing the sadistic happenings, by and large women are being specifically victimized.
It said at present 191 shelters, are providing refuge to 6779 hapless victims and another 1800 have taken refuge in neighboring Assam.
Civilians have been specially chosen for this doze of brutal violence in Bengal, especially after the election and 2157 civilians were attacked and 692 families of innocents have been served death threats. Already 3886 properties have been destroyed, Hindu families forced to flee and pockets of Anti-Indian outlook created, it added.
The memorandum said this senseless instigation of violence is, undoubtedly, a part of electoral vengeance against the people who exercised their democratic right to vote for one dispensation or the other in a free democracy and the very authorities of the State machinery, police in particular, vested with the protection of life and property, have neither acted nor responded in this enacted saga of violence which has shocked the peace loving citizens of entire nation.
It demanded stopping of the violence immediately with a firm hand, punishing the people/ groups/ cadres responsible for this terror, use of all possible constitutional provisions for controlling the anti-Indian and illegal immigrants, immediate deployment of Central Security Forces for protection of the victims and provision of compensation to victims.
The signatories to memorandum among other included RSS leader Dr Gautam Mengi, Dr Sudershan (retd) DG DRDO, Parshotam Didhichi president SDS, Justice (retd) Sunil Hali former Chief Secretary S S Billawaria and many others.
It expressed the hope that positive and effective deterrent action would be initiated for restoring our faith in the Constitutional establishment.
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