RSS is playing the Matua Master Card to dislodge Mamata Banerjee!
RSS is playing the Matua Master Card to dislodge Mamata Banerjee!
Matua Delegation heads to New Delhi to demand citizenship for the Hindu Bengali Refugees, the partition victims.
I was not wrong as the latest Matua communique accuses BJP leadership not to comply with the assurance to break the indefinite hunger strike demanding citizenship.
Matua Delegation heads to New Delhi to demand citizenship for Hindu Bengali Refugees, the partition victims.
I have no liability to be politically correct. In fact, the Harichand Guruchand dynasty has something to do with my blood ,identity. My Jethima, senior auntie happened to be a sister of late Kapil Krishna Tahkur. Kapil Krishna Thakur accompanied Matua mother Bina Pani Devi while she visited our home at Basantipur in Uttarakhand during sixties while Basantipur was the centre of Matua Mahotsav thanks to late Lalit Gusai, my elder brother who considered my late uncle Dr Sudhir Biswas his God Father.
Late Kapil Krishna Thakur always respected the relationship and Bina Pani Devi always remembered whenever I visited Thakur Badi.
In fact, my late father Pulin Babu had a good relationship with late PR Thakur. Despite he was known follower of Babasaheb as well as a committed supporter of late Jogendranath Mandal a, the celebrated opponent of PR Thakur who was the mastermind to elect DR BR Ambedkar to the constituent Assembly to head the draft committee for Indian constitution and for which PR Thakur and his family never did forgive either Jogendra Nath Mandal or DR BR Ambedkar.
I would be rather happy to see Subrata Thakur who happens to be my brother in relation provided the latest version of the Thakur dynasty recognises or remembers it.
But I have nothing to do with Matua Politics which deviated from Matua movement, the milestone agrarian insurrection against Hindutva in this ASURA land.
I had been warning against the role of RSS practicing brutal apartheid against all non-Aryan landscape and highlighting the plight of the Bengali Partition Victim Hindu Refugees subjected to deportation and pointed out quite clearly how those who came just five years back from Pakistan get citizenship against the provision of RSS amended citizenship Act and for whom the Act has to be amended once again.
While Bengali refugees settled since 1947 have been branded as illegal immigrants.
Though Narendra Bhai Modi declared to consider all Hindu Refugees as refugees and promised to grant them citizenship to polarise politics of vertical religious dividing line to get the helms of the nation to accomplish the unfulfilled neo Nazi tasks of Hindu Imperialism linked with Zionism as well as dollar hegemony. But he has denied citizenship to the Bengali partition victims, the Non Aryan lot, mostly untouchable, excluded and excommunicated.
Thus, I criticised the Matua leaders while they decided to withdraw the hunger strike after a closed door meeting of district and provincial noteworthy leaders from RSS and BJP and believed that the BJP regime was going to grant them citizenship.
It was not to be.
I was not wrong as the latest Matua communique accuses BJP leadership not to comply with the assurance to break the indefinite hunger strike demanding citizenship.
Rather RSS is playing the Matua Master Card to dislodge Mamata Banerjee.
It is quite an irony that Guruchand Thakur launched the Chandal movement along with his followers and the united Bahujan samaj in united Bengal which is rather intact to this date in the other side of the political border to abolish untouchability in Bengal and Untouchability was prohibited in Bengal way back in 1911, much before Dr BR Ambedkar launched his crusade against the Caste economics of the ruling hegemony.
Guruchand Thakur, the son of Harichand Thakur who was the leader in Indigo revolt and launched the first renaissance in Indian geopolitics declaring a war against Brahmin Dharma and Vedic rituals banning the Purohit in Bahujan samaj and launched a widow marriage campaign and got his own nephew married to a widow. He launched the first education movement and not only this; he was the first man to demand land reforms on Indian soil. Guruchand was the man who was behind Jogendra Nath Mandal's Political avatar from Barishal.
Nevertheless, I rate Matua Movement as the fountainhead of Indian Agrarian Uprisings and I support Matua initiatives in the best interest of our people irrespective of the suicidal Matua politics.
On the other hand, the fact is daylight clear to expose the so much so hyped Hindutva agenda in which our glorious history of Matua movement is divested.
Just assess the quality of racial discrimination while Bengali Hindu Refugees settled in India since 1947 remain non-citizens mobile Vote Bank equation which changes the colour in accordance with the latest colour of Power Politics just because of sustenance, the Home Ministry is planning a package which includes private jobs for Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan who have migrated to India along with a fast-track process for Indian citizenship.
Decisions to this effect could be unveiled in form of a policy by the Home Ministry on December 23 when a meeting is scheduled with representative associations especially of minority communities from neighbouring countries to address their grievances related to grant of Long Term Visa (LTV) and Indian Citizenship.
Mind you, what Times of India reported in September just before Matua Hunger strike?
NEW DELHI: Seeking to facilitate Pakistani Hindus wanting to stay back in India for fear of religious persecution back home, the Union home ministry has constituted a taskforce that will monitor and expedite processing of citizenship and long term visa applications for such applicants.
The taskforce, to be headed by joint secretary (foreigners) in the home ministry, will start its work in two weeks.
"Union home minister Rajnath Singh reviewed matters relating to grant of citizenship that takes a long time for completion of the entire process. This causes hardship and difficulties to applicants, especially to minorities from neighbouring countries who are often of poor economic standing," a home ministry release said on Friday. Stating that the ministry had received several representations in this regard, it announced approval of a taskforce for speedy disposal of applications from foreign citizens claiming refugee status.
Home ministry sources said the taskforce will work to grant citizenship to all Pakistani Hindus with complete documents within two months. For those with inadequate documents, long-term visa will be facilitated.
The taskforce will follow up with the state governments on representations regarding pending cases in the states. MHA officials may be sent to coordinate with the state home departments and Foreign Registration Office officials.
Since the initial applications are filed online, the taskforce will monitor them and keep track of their progress.
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The taskforce will also coordinate matters relating to long term visa, which for such refugees may extend to 10-15 years. A foreigner on long term visa is permitted to take up any employment in the private sector or to pursue studies in any academic institution.
Most Pakistani nationals belonging to the minority community come to India on a tourist visa only to claim refugee status. Seeking to stay back, they usually apply for citizenship or long term visas.
As per data put out by the Union home ministry, 3,753 Pakistani nationals were given long-term visas over 2013 and 2014 (up to June 30) and 1,854 granted citizenship between 2011 and the current year.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Home-ministry-constitutes-taskforce-to-facilitate-citizenship-to-Pakistani-Hindus/articleshow/41810649.cms
Read also:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/supreme-court-why-is-eastern-border-still-porous/article6701871.ece
For decades, citizenship card rules Matua fate
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/For-decades-citizenship-card-rules-Matua-fate/articleshow/45390507.cms
The Matua factor in Bengal politics
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/The-Matua-factor-in-Bengal-politics/articleshow/32988818.cms
CPI (M) leader endorses Modi’s view on Matuas
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/cpi-m-leader-endorses-modis-view-on-matuas/article5991735.ece
The West Bengal Story The Caste Question in Lok Sabha Elections
Caste, migration and identity
http://www.india-seminar.com/2013/645/645_praskanva_siharay.htm
O- Palash Biswas


