BJP politician's tweet on status of Hindus in Bengal sparks debate

A meme shared by former Meghalaya Governor and senior West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader Tathagata Roy on a social networking site sparked serious controversy over the status of Hindus living in West BengalThe issue triggered netizens to engage in a raging debate with just five months left ahead of the state assembly pollsA child and his fatherrefugees from WEST BENGAL in 2050in Bengali Hindu refugee colony in JharkhandThe child asks what they had left backhow his aunt was picked up by lsquothemrsquo and killedFather says Karim chacha was very kind he was crying when he saw us off at the border pictwittercomj0xug2WCJXmdash Tathagata Roy tathagata2 November 19 2020The meme shared by the senior politician read A child and his father refugees from West Bengal in 2050 in Bengali Hindu refugee colony in Jharkhand The child asks what they had left back how his aunt was picked up by them and killed Father says Karim chacha uncle was very kind He was crying when he saw us off at the border The little boy asked Then why did my grandmother say that they picked up my aunt and killed herThe controversial post of Roy reminded of the atrocities against Hindus in neighbouring Bangladesh when thousands of Bengalispeaking people were brutally killed in the hands of Muslims in undivided Bangladesh then known as East PakistanYesterday I tweeted a meme of a Bengali Hindu father and son in 2050 forced to leave Muslimdominated West Bengal Some called me mad Ask any Hindu who lived in Dhaka or Barisal in the 1930s If u told them then that you will have to leave your home in 1015 years they would have laughed at you he tweeted on FridayAlways accepted by the educated middleclass Bengalis for his erudite nature and intellectual refinement Roy was the state BJP president between 2002 and 2006 and also a member of the BJPs national executive committee from 2002 to 2015 Later he was appointed as the governor of Tripura in May 2015 In August 2018 he took over as the governor of MeghalayaRoys post was retweeted by various members of the Twitterati who supported him for championing the cause of the Hindus in West BengalThey laughed at the minority complex of the majority in Central Asia Khurasan Iran Afghanistan Turkey Asia Minor of today Buddhism Saivism Christianity Zoroastrianism Yezidis Pagans vanished like a hares horn after a few beheadings God saved India till now tweeted Anand KumarAnother member Sid M wrote India wont be saved in future not because coz of Muslims but because of liberals and seculars who will ensure Indias transformation to a Muslim state Just a matter of time The only solution to survival forceful conversion of X and M to the Hindu fold and you will have Sanatan Bharat againThe West Bengal Police had to turn to factcheckers on communally sensitive posts ahead of the crucial state assembly pollsEarlier the state police had tweeted a screen grab of a post by BJP MP Arjun Singh calling it misleadingThey wrote Misleading Legal action is being taken Please do not get carried away by provocative and mischievous posts The tweet by the Barrackpore MP had referred to vandalism of a temple in Murshidabad district The district police said a fire had damaged the templeOn August 28 they had also taken note of a video tweeted by Pakistaniborn Canadian writer Tarek Fatah and called it fakeA video clip from Bangladesh is being circulated intentionally to defame the West Bengal administration Legal action is being taken the state police had tweeted from their official Twitter accountAmid political speculations on who would become BJPs poster boy in Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections Roys comeback definitely stands out as the most significant one He had also met state BJP president Dilip Ghosh and other central leaders like Kailash Vijayvargiyaji upon his returnHe has been a senior BJP leader for a pretty long time and held many important posts in the past Being a Hindu leader he has always been vocal about various issues on social media which drew a substantial fanfollowing for him nationally Being a senior member Roy knows a lot of people in the saffron foldAccording to the 2011 Census of India West Bengal has over 246 million Bengali Muslims who form 2701 per cent of the states populationBengali Muslims form the majority of the population mainly in three districts Murshidabad Malda and Uttar Dinajpur Their population in the state before 1947 was around 30 per cent and during the time of independence it went down to just 18 per centAfter Partition of Bengal in 1947 the majority of Bengali Muslims from West Bengal had migrated to East Pakistan present day Bangladesh Estimates show that nearly 1534718 Bengali Muslims had left Bengal permanently for East Pakistan during 19471951Keep scrolling to read more newsCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates MidDay is now on Telegram Click here to join our 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