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The Bengali indigenous Muslims who speak in the district have been traditional and historical for the “consolidation of votes in block” not only for Mamata Banerjee, but for Congress and the CPM.
Murshidabad of Western Bengal saw violence amid protests against WAQF. (PTI/representative image)
Murshidabad burned for days, however, silence, anxiety and weight of what follows, can last much more, and cut much more. Counting the dead, and not to the dying trust, the government here loses the real toll. Welcome to the Borderland fault of Bengala – Murshidabad.
The damage left by the recent community outbreak over low heat, with fear, in eroded trust. As the debris of the detailed houses, broken blinds, the stores looted and the encta vehicles and the problem of the politicians written carefully, the true story as soon as it begins. The violence here was an aberration. It was a deeper symptom or fractures that the district has grown too much to the battery to ignore.
The Bengali indigenous Muslims who speak in the district have been traditional and historical for the “consolidation of votes in block” not only for Mamata Banerjee, but for Congress and the CPM. Reason lies in the population.
Borderland under tension
Murshidabad is not just another district; It is a border in every way: geographical, emotional and surely community. With its porous borders, shared history, partition pain and a complex demographic fabric, a delicate line between coexistence and conflict has always walked. When violence broke out, it was less a surprise than an inevitability waiting to play for many who understand the context.
For years, the region has witnessed the growing communal anxieties, often inflamed by rumors, economic marginalization, religious provocation, sterile interest and, sometimes, digital misinformation. Local tensions are no longer deactivated; They are stored as dry tinder, waiting for a spark and greater polarization.
With the state prime minister, Mamata Banerjee, often trying to save his grass by protecting his alleged ‘voting bank’ against the policies of the Modi government, that spark propagates to shoot.
The speed with which stories about violence in WhatsApp and Facebook were created and circulated, the strategy to open multiple fronts in multiple locations reflects a worrying trend. Community tensions are not amplified here, they are writing.
In the case of Murshidabad, the wrong information spread faster than any official response. When the administration arrived, the battle lines were already drawn, in the minds of the people.
The quiet division that nobody speaks
The Western Bengala Government District report published in 2021 states: “Conscrain to the 2011 Census, the Murshidabad district has a population of 71.03,807 (people), including 36,27,564 men and 34.76,243 females. The population of the population. The population of the population. The population of the population followed by Hindu (33.21 percent).”
Experts say that the area witnessed a constant demographic change and deepened a quiet division in the growing community within the Muslim community between Bengali indigenous Muslims and illegal migrants of Bangladesh. Niti Ayog has reported that the Murshidabad district is one of the most backward districts in India. National and international labor migration has continued for decades.
In the absence of adequate administrative scrutiny, the region gradually became a fertile terrain for the radical activity backed by James and then became a safe refuge for the Popular Front of India (PFI).
However, these are not only conjectures, but proven facts, as explained in multiple reports of the State and Central Research Agency on the series of disturbances over the years, investigate the false currency networks and the smuggling rackets of cows.
Silence and chill
What is most lacking is leadership. They are not speeches of a strong man or long statements in social networks, but moral leadership, the guy who can cool the temperature and understanding of the runners was not seen anywhere.
Bengal’s current political speech is consumed so much for polarization that there is no medium credible voice. Each act is quickly assigned a reason for the next elections and each silence interpreted as complicity.
The ruling party speaks of “conspiracies”, the opposition decreases “appeasement” and “orientation”, and the citizen is sailing the truth in a fear fog.
For victims of repeated communal disturbances: Lalgola, Beldeta, Jangipur, Shamshergunj, Dhuliyan, who returns home does not feel like going home. Many believe that even if they return, security in their own land is no longer guaranteed.
The real toll
The violence of the Murshidabad week not only destroyed the property, Toke lives and displaced hundreds of hundreds of certainties. Who can speak freely? Who can come into which neighborhood? Who is suddenly the “other”?
These are the questions that now disturb common lives: students in schools, buyers and vendors in markets, farmers in fields and weavers in their silk factories.
Murshidabad is surely calm again, since normality is withdrawn. But it is not cured. And if we treat fire like history, and not the ash that is left behind, we will probably have not learned anything.
