Huge Protest in Kolkata against Mamata Banerjee for attacking Hindu Saints and Monks in Bengal.

Thousands from different Ashram and Muths participated in ‘Sant Swabhiman Yatra’ in a protest against WB CM Mamata Banerjee for attacking Hindu Saints and Monks.

This Sant Swaviman Yatra will surely give an effect on the Hindu vote bank in Bengal just before the last two phases of Lok Sabha poll in Bengal against the trend of .’Muslim appeasement’ in current politics of TMC

Prakash Narayan Das  | HENB | Kolkata  | May 24, 2024:: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), Bharat Sevashram Sangha, Sanyasins of Ramakrishna  Order and ISKCON including other Sanatani monk fraternity jointly organised a march of thousands of monks from across Bengal in Calcutta on May 24 to protest against chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s recent accusation that some  monks were acting at the behest of the BJP.

Thousands of ‘bare-footed ‘monks, including those activists associated with several Hindu spiritual-philanthropic organisations, took  part in the rally. It was organized under the banner of “Bangiya Sanyasi Samaj”, an outfit of the monks with  the patronage of VHP, activating all the wings of the saffron ecosystem.

Several wings of the saffron ecosystem and a few BJP leaders took part in the rally. The saints and other participants assembled in the Bagbazar Nivedita park and the rally started from Bagbazar Mayer Bari. The saffron March ended at the ancestral home of Swami Vivekananda at Simla Street passing through Girish Avenue, Bagbazar Street, Shyambazar Five Point and Bidhan Sarani in the city.

At her Arambagh rally on Saturday, Trinamool Congress chairperson and Bengal CM  Mamata had accused some monks of working under the influence of BJP leaders in Delhi. There she took the name of Kartik Maharaj (Swami Pradiptananda) of Bharat Sevashram Sangha for his alleged involvement in Politics. She also targeted the saints of Ramakrishna Mission and ISKCON in her speech.

The chief minister particularly named Kartik Maharaj, the secretary of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha’s ashram in Murshidabad’s Beldanga, and said he had a bias for the BJP as he prevented TMC election agents from entering polling booths. The fresh charge came on a day Kartik Maharaj sent a legal notice to Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of defamation over remarks she had made at Arambagh. Kartik Maharaj (Swami Pradiptananda) denied all such ‘baseless and motivated’ allegations made by WB CM Mamata Banerjee. But, in a subsequent meeting in Onda, CM Banerjee clarified her stand against some monks of the Hindu organizations and accused Kartik Maharaj once again. In the meanwhile, around 10 people barged into the building Of Ramakrishna Mission on Sevoke Road in Siliguri on Sunday early morning and took away workers and security guards, though the attackers later released them. The row obviously infuriated the saints and monks of Bengal to come out in the street to protest with their followers and supporters.

Senior saints and monks like Mahamandaleshwar Paramatmananda of Brahmamoyee Kalibari, Nirgunananda Brahmachari of Rishra Prem Mandir, Bandhugaurav Brahmachari of Mahauddharan Math (Mahanam Angan), Jagadartihar Prabhu of ISKCON, Brahmacharini Smriti Devi of Badkulla Bharat Mata Mandir and many other senior monks of Bengal including Swami Pradiptananda of Bharat Sevashram Sangha took part in the rally.

The saints and monks condemned the Muslim appeasement policy of Mamata Banerjee and her discriminatory attitude to the Hindu Sadhu and Sanyasis and expressed their concern for Bengali Hindus under the threat of Jihadi attacks as surfaced in different parts of Bengal.

The participants of the rally took a vow to combat all Jihadi force in Bengal and uproot all political forces stand against the majority Hindus in Bengal.

The colourful rally with hundreds of sadhus, tableaus, conch blowing women folk, sankirtan dal, sloganeering  activists converged into a powerful Hindu solidarity which gave a clear massage of ‘no tolerance’ for the attack on Hindu Sadhu Samaj in Bengal anyway.

The Hindu resentment in Bengal against ‘anti-Hindu’ Mamata Banerjee is not now seen in a localised spur. Many Sant Swaviman Yatras were seen many places in Bengal as a huge repercussion against the statement made by Mamata Banerjee against Bharat Sevashramn Sangha, Ramakrishna Mission and ISKCON. On Friday the local Hindus took out a  rally in Kakdwip where hundreds of Sadhus and devotees of various Ashrams and Hindu religious organisation took part in it.

This Sant Swaviman Yatras in many places in Southern Bengal will surely give an effect on the Hindu vote bank in Bengal just before the last two phases of Lok Sabha poll in Bengal against the trend of .’Muslim appeasement’ in current politics of TMC.

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__News inputs by Sankirtan Das from Kakdwip.

__ Video inputs: Nitai Poddar, Dipak Halder  & DD Bangla.