{"id":200556,"date":"2026-05-14T18:27:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=200556"},"modified":"2026-05-14T18:30:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:30:51","slug":"pakistan-2-in-bengal-is-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/05\/14\/pakistan-2-in-bengal-is-inevitable.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan 2 in Bengal is Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Just as Bengal gave birth to the original Pakistan Movement in 1906 when the All India Muslim League was founded in Dhaka to defend Muslim lives, rights and identity against rising Hindu majoritarianism, a movement that ultimately led to the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the same sacred soil is now igniting Pakistan 2.0 after the Bharatiya Janata Partys rigged 2026 West Bengal victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of the BJP\u2019s sweep to power with over 200 of 294 seats ending Trinamool Congresss\u2019s 15-year-rule, serious allegations have surfaced of massive EVM tampering, voter suppression, booth capturing, fraudulent counting, and a venomous \u2018Hindu khatre mein hai\u2019 hate campaign. Opposition leaders, TMC voices and sections of international media have described the events as a bloodless political genocide and mass disenfranchisement. The central question now echoes across Bengal and beyond. Is the denial of political rights to Muslims under Hindutva leadership the spark for a revived Pakistan Movement 2.0, a pushback rooted in the Two-Nation Theory that once shaped the 1947 Partition?<\/p>\n

Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All India Muslim League never began with a demand for immediate separation. In his Fourteen Points, Jinnah sought proper political safeguards and rights for Muslims within a united India so they would not be reduced to second class citizens under Hindu majority rule. It was only when those rights were repeatedly denied, especially after the 1937 provincial elections, when Congress formed governments and refused fair power sharing, imposing majoritarian policies such as the promotion of Hindi over Urdu, the singing of Bande Mataram and cow protection laws, perceived as attacks on Muslim dietary practices, that the demand for a separate homeland became inevitable. The Lahore Resolution of 1940 and the Muslim League\u2019s landslide in 1946 turned the Two Nation Theory into political reality. Hindus and Muslims were not merely two religious communities but two distinct nations separate in culture history and aspirations.<\/p>\n

Today, in West Bengal, many Muslims and observers see the exact same pattern repeating under the new BJP government. The controversy centres on the Election Commission\u2019s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls conducted just before the polls. Approximately nine million voters roughly 12 percent of the states 76 million electorate were struck off. Over six million were deleted as absentee or deceased while another 2.7 million were dragged into biased tribunals over minor documentation issues guided by a centrally mandated logical discrepancy algorithm. Muslim and Dalit dominated districts such as Murshidabad, North 24 Parganas, and Malda suffered the heaviest losses. International outlets, including BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Progressive International, labelled the exercise administrative xenophobia designed to shift demography and silence minority voices wary of the BJPs Hindu nationalist agenda. At the same time inflated Form 6 registrations poured in outsiders while genuine voters were purged. The result was a conveniently shrunken electorate that delivered the BJP its historic breakthrough in a state long resistant to it because of its 27 to 30 percent Muslim base.<\/p>\n

To secure this mandate, the BJP-led Indian govt deployed unprecedented force. 2.5 lakh central police personnel, thousands of CAPF convoys and Amit Shah\u2019s public declaration that these forces would remain in West Bengal for 60 days even after a BJP government was formed. Reports of lathi charges in minority areas, selective inaction by security forces and an atmosphere of fear psychosis have reinforced the perception of an external power structure ensuring that minority resistance cannot translate into electoral strength, precisely the fear the Muslim League voiced about a Congress-dominated centre in the 1940s.<\/p>\n

Victory celebrations quickly descended into violence. In the immediate aftermath, Muslims faced at least 34 orchestrated attacks, the destruction of over 50 homes, mosques, meat shops, and properties plus systematic intimidation. At least four political workers were killed, TMC offices were vandalised or set ablaze in over a dozen locations including Tollygunge, Kasba, Baruipur, and Murshidabad, and TMC candidates required CAPF escorts to leave counting centres. In Barasat and Diamond Harbour, mobs tore down nameplates and unofficially renamed Masjid Para Road and Masjid Bari Road as Netaji Pally Road framing it as cultural reclamation but denounced by critics as communal erasure. Adding to the sense of siege, the new BJP government swiftly imposed a public ban on the slaughter of cows, bulls, and buffaloes, complete with mandatory fitness certificates issued just before Eid. In a state with 27 percent Muslims this overt cultural imposition after years of TMC\u2019s balancing act leaves zero space for Muslim identity, Qurbani or traditional livelihoods inside what is now being called Gaurakshak Bengal.<\/p>\n

The parallels with the 1930s and 40s are stark and deliberate. History repeats with chilling precision. Majoritarian pogroms once forced Muslims to demand a separate homeland. Today\u2019s manufactured siege and voter deletions echoing the League\u2019s charge of numerical marginalization, militarised polling, post poll vendetta, symbolic renaming of Islamic heritage sites and targeted cultural curbs, has convinced large sections of Bengali Muslims that their votes, their names, and their cultural markers are under systematic siege. West Bengal\u2019s 2217 km contiguous border with Bangladesh creates a ready environment of armed resistance ensuring Bengali Muslims will not be broken. This blatant reign of terror will only fuel the inevitable awakening and defiance that ignites Pakistan 2.<\/p>\n

History is unambiguous. When a large community feels its political rights are deliberately taken away and its way of life is erased, trust snaps, polarisation deepens, and calls for separation gain unstoppable momentum. Such targeted measures do not integrate, they mobilise and radicalise.<\/p>\n

The ghosts of 1947 have risen once more right from the land that birthed the first Pakistan Movement. For millions of Bengali Muslims the message from the ground is already clear. Pakistan 2 in Bengal is now equally inevitable.<\/p>\n

This time it arrives not as a whisper but as thunder. Forged in betrayal and ignited by erasure, this awakening fire will burn brighter with every act of suppression. Bengal has spoken. The subcontinent will tremble. Nothing will extinguish its roar.<\/p>\n

The writer is a Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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