""Demography of all bordering areas has been changed. Those who left India and called it 'napaak', TMC is welcoming them back for its vote bank. Rohingyas are being welcomed in West Bengal. With the arrival of Bangladeshi immigrants, Jihadi ideas have also reached the state. A minister from TMC is openly validating what is happening in the state and has gone on to say that Hindus are only migrating within the state... The situation is equally worrisome in all border districts and a little less in the interiors of the state, but such a problem exists throughout the state nevertheless," he said. "Where we are sitting right now, this place was covered in blood back in 1946, the great Calcutta killing began from here. Mamata Banerjee's government has taken us back to that time," the BJP MP said."
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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, was a day of nationwide communal riots by the Indian Muslim community announced by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. And orchestrated by ‘The Butcher of Bengal H.S.Suhravardy. It led to large-scale violence by Muslims on Hindus? He Instigated the crazed Muslim Men to loot, maim, murder, and gang rape women and girls until they die and then the hung their bodies on poles as trophies. Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kol
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