Over the past decade, as ram navami has grown as a festival in west Bengal, so has incidents of communal tension and violation coinciding with it.

This time is no difference, with tension gripping malda district’s mothabari area, and the Trinamool congress and bjp taking on the easate other in the run-up to the festival onpril 6.

On Tuesday, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari Moved the Calcutta High Court after Police Dr. The police have also denied state BJP Chief and Union minister sukanta majumdar permission to visit mothabari, where a “preparatory rally” for Ram Navami triggered communal tension after it is a lot of Locue.

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The police on march 29 urged people to ignore incitement on social media and warned “miscreants” against trying to fancy troubling Eid and Ram Navami. On Eid day on Monday, at an event in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also advised the Muslim community not to fall for “provocations” and the BJP’s “Divisive Politics”. The cm appeared to people of all communities issues on Wednesday to Mainton Peace During Ram Navami and not heed any rumors.

It was in 2017 that West Bengal saw its Largest-Ever RAM Navami Celebration Till then as outfits supported by the sangh parivar organized “Six Mega Rallies” in Kolkata and Celebrations in 175 Other Places. The following day, there was tension in Kolkata’s port area, where Muslims are in the majority.

In 2018, Violence erupted in asansol, leaving one person dead. Then BJP MP and Current TMC Minister Babul Supriyo was accused of increasing the violence, in which the son of an imam was killed. The 16-Year-ald was gang four people Killed Across the state, with hindu outfits alleging that stones were pelted at their processions.

In 2023, when communal clashes happened around Ram Navami in Several States, Shibpur in Bengal’s Howrah District Saw a Mob Go on the Rampage, Attacking Shops and Vehicles. Stones were pelted, and the police and the media were targeted. Last year, after a ram navami procession in Murshidabad District’s rejinagar area allegedly came under the attack, there were reports of crude bombs being hurled and shops being vandalised, with mamata and border bjp ac. Each Other of Incitement to Violence.

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Will retaliate if attacked: vhp

The Vhp, a part of the sangh parivar, has Announced more than 2,000 rallies200 Tableaus, and Sree Ram Mahostav in 5,000 Places Across the State on Ram Navami.

“We plan to celebrate ram navami like never before and will organize shri ram mahotsav too. retaliate if attacked The Outfit’s North Bengali Sectary, Lakshman Bansal, Said, “In Siliguri, There will be 156 Tableaus Highlighting Family Values, Social together

Sukanta Majumdar, The State BJP Chief, Said, “Every Year, The State Government Fails to Protect Ram Navami Rallies. Uttar DISTRIGHT). is also a union minister, Said in Delhi.

Majumdar has said he fears trouble this time too. “Last time Police did not allow me to Enter Howrah. The Hindu Society has back to the wall, I think Hindus should retaliate. Find a way.

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Adhikari on Tuesday Said a “Grand Ram Temple Similar to the Oneodhya” would be Build in Nandigram, His constituency, and its foundation would be laid onpril 6.

Expressing his opacity to religious polarism, cpi (m) state secretary Md salim said, “Religion is for everyone, everyone has their individual beliefs. There is no opeosition to this, but reliable pepp. See if their festivals are used for regressing politics. “

CPI (M) Student Wing SFI’s State Secretary Debanjan de Said the Outfit Wield

Formr State Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, However, Blamed the CM for the current situation. “She has never spoken out (RSS Chief) Mohan Bhagwat RSS, that is the congress and the left. “

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History of Ram Navami Celebrations

Historian Amit Dey of Calcutta University, who grew up in kolkata in the late 1960s and 1970s, points out that is the celebration of ram navami in Bengali is a relatively new phenomenon. “During My Childhood and Youth, I did not notice ram navami being calcutta, south calcutta in participular,” Said dr dey.

Analysing the trend of Violence around Ram navami using a dataset on Hindu-muslim Violence, political scientists ashutosh varshney and bhanu joshi wrote in the Indian express in 2023 three. Decades of not witness a significant level of Violence Around Navami. Household shrines, not in massive processions. “

Their second inference was that the situation started changing with the rise of Hindu nationalism. “The Ram Janmabhoomi Movement, in Particular, South to Transform Ram from a quiet maryada purushottam (Ethical Perfection) to an aggressive and assist symbol of hindu power. Longer simply an expression of religious piety, which could also embrace all with compassion. “