Via PTI
KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” determination to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.
Banerjee identified that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such, that individuals within the state have by no means venerated any day as basis day since India’s independence.
“I’m shocked and stunned to understand that you’ve got made up our minds to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you have got peculiarly selected to explain because the State Basis of West Bengal’,” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday.
She stated that right through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative determination” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted. Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and annoying procedure. The method concerned uprooting of hundreds of thousands of other folks around the border and loss of life and displacement of innumerable households.”
“Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or venerated, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Slightly, we now have noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would now not be resisted at that time of time,” she stated.
Banerjee additionally wrote that individuals were born and taken up right here and feature by no means venerated any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes. If an match is carried out at Raj Bhavan, it “might at very best be a programme of a political celebration, pushed by way of vendetta, however now not of the folk or its Govt,” the executive minister stated.
“The state used to be now not based on any explicit day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped throughout the notorious Radcliffe Award,” the letter learn. On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting had been held. A kind of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer by way of a majority. The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.
For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be made up our minds to behavior a referendum.
Just about 2.5 million other folks had been displaced from each side and homes value crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.
The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.
On August 9 of that 12 months, a joint commentary used to be issued by way of outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.
The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.
A Peace Run’ by way of NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw match by way of faculty youngsters may also be held at the instance.
KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” determination to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.
Banerjee identified that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such, that individuals within the state have by no means venerated any day as basis day since India’s independence.
“I’m shocked and stunned to understand that you’ve got made up our minds to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you have got peculiarly selected to explain because the State Basis of West Bengal’,” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday.
She stated that right through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative determination” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted. Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and annoying procedure. The method concerned uprooting of hundreds of thousands of other folks around the border and loss of life and displacement of innumerable households.” googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0′); );
“Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or venerated, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Slightly, we now have noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would now not be resisted at that time of time,” she stated.
Banerjee additionally wrote that individuals were born and taken up right here and feature by no means venerated any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes. If an match is carried out at Raj Bhavan, it “might at very best be a programme of a political celebration, pushed by way of vendetta, however now not of the folk or its Govt,” the executive minister stated.
“The state used to be now not based on any explicit day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped throughout the notorious Radcliffe Award,” the letter learn. On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting had been held. A kind of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer by way of a majority. The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.
For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be made up our minds to behavior a referendum.
Just about 2.5 million other folks had been displaced from each side and homes value crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.
The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.
On August 9 of that 12 months, a joint commentary used to be issued by way of outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.
The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.
A Peace Run’ by way of NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw match by way of faculty youngsters may also be held at the instance.
