Bengal Tiger Dr.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee
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Dr. Syama Prasad Mukherjee a Brahmin, a barrister,
a scholar Kolkata University Vice chancellor, freedom fighter, A principled
person who gave up his portfolio due to differences with the then prime
minister Nehru.
There are so many facts related to our country
during the struggle for independence. Unfortunately so many facts and exemplary
leaders were over shadowed and sent to oblivion under the mammoth image of
Gandhiji and some such leaders who were given at most prominence and almost
godhood. A great educationalist, a Barrister and founder of Bharatiya Jan Sangh
(BJP Later on) One such great person who was sent beyond memory is Dr Shyama
Prasad Mukherjee. Precisely I shall tell how?
3rd June 1947 is birthday of West Bengal!
Abnormal it may sound, but the fact remains that
on this day of 1947, after much hardship Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee was able to
influence the Bengal Legislature to include the Hindu part of Bengal within
India!*Bengal provincial Muslim League leader Hossain Sahid Suhrawardy came up
with a radical plan to create an independent Bengal state that won’t join
either Pakistan or India and remain un-partitioned. Suhrawardy realised that if
Bengal is partitioned then it will be economically disastrous for east Bengal
as all coal mines, all jute mills but two and other industrial plants will
certainly go to the western part since these were in an overwhelmingly Hindu
majority area. Most important of all, Kolkata, then the largest city in India,
an industrial and commercial hub and the largest port will also go to the
western part. Suhrawardy floated his idea on 24 April 1947 at a press
conference in Delhi. Md Ali Jinnah very clearly said he will not settle for
Bengal, if Calcutta is not given to Pakistan!
The entire Bengal & Assam were in the initial
plan of demand for Pakistan! While our Communists found the demand for Pakistan
very much justified, the Congress too was almost ready to gift entire Bengal to
Pakistan, ignoring the interests of its huge Hindu population.
Calcutta, then the biggest & richest city of
India was Jinnah's dream & all Muslims of Bengal were almost sure that it
will be given to majority community, as it is their normal right!
The Lion of India (Bharat Keshri), Dr. Mukherjee
with a seer propagation of safety and security of Bengali Hindus established
the legitimate claim of a separate land of Bengali Hindus within the territory
of India, completely excluded from the clutch of communal Pakistan or any
blatant conspiracy to suppress Bengali Hindus in the name of a united sovereign
Bengal.
Thanks to Dr. SP Mukherjee, for the first time in
history, a capital city of a divided state was not given away to the majority.
It went to the minority, I.e. to the Bengali Hindus who were a little more than
32% of the total population of undivided Bengal!
Dr. SP Mukherjee saved the lives & dignity of
5 crore Hindus by keeping the western part of Bengal with India! Today, he is
almost forgotten in Bengal. He is counted a communalist because he saved Hindus
from the hands of death awaiting in Pakistan. What would have been done to
Bengali Hindus if entire Bengal would have gone to Pakistan in 1947. It is simple.
The same what Hindus faced in Lahore, Karachi and Dhaka in last 70 years. A
gradual death and fast vanishing of existence. Never forget this date of
history. On this day our future entity was born as a result of hard work of a
towering leader - Dr. Shyam Prasad Mukherjee!
Let us at least spread these facts to the
posterity. Let the youth know what had happened in the past and how the real
heroes are faded out.
Swasti.
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