The face of Gopal Mazumdar’s mom and the Sainbari bloodbath: Political violence in Bengal

Ahead of the upcoming West Bengal Legislative elections, a grotesque incident of political violence has shaken the conscience of the state. On Friday, a BJP employee and his aged mom had been brutally thrashed allegedly by Trinamool Congress (TMC) goons.
The sufferer, recognized as Gopal Mazumdar, and his 85-year-old mom had been at their residence in Ward No.6 in Nimta in North DumDum metropolis. The BJP employee recounted, “A total of 3 people barged into my house at around 1:30 am in the morning. First, they hurled the choicest of expletives at me and then inquired whether I am associated with the BJP. They then began assaulting us.” The accused males attacked him with the hood of a gun and pushed his mom, following which they sustained grave accidents to their head and face.
North 24 Paraganas: BJP employee Gopal Majumdar has alleged that three TMC staff entered his home and attacked his mom in Nimta, North Dumdum on twenty seventh Feb; FIR registered #WestBengal pic.twitter.com/lYdOYXNYxM— ANI (@ANI) February 28, 2021
One of the locals stated that the realm has been terrorised by Trinamool Congress goons. He knowledgeable that previous to assaulting Gopal Mazumdar, they’ve targetted different BJP staff. “My son is a BJP worker and so they assaulted him. They thrashed him mercilessly,” the aged mom of Gopal Mazumdar broke into tears because the reporter inquired concerning the incident. The plight of the bruised and battered lady despatched shockwaves throughout the nation and raised eyebrows concerning the growing political violence in West Bengal.
Political violence and brutality by political goons have lengthy been part of Bengal politics. This barbaric observe of bodily harming and eliminating lively supporters of rival political events started nearly 50 years in the past. And the horrific torture and homicide of Congress supporters by the hands of CPI(M) goons (the Sainbari incident) on March 17, 1970, is a sworn statement to it.
The horrific murders at Sainbari by CPIM-led-mob
The Sain household, who lived in Burdwan through the Seventies, had been well-known for his or her affiliation with the Congress get together. On March 17, a Communist get together member by the identify of Khokon Sen led a mob of his get together staff to the ancestral home of the household. The Sains had been celebrating the ‘naming ceremony’ of a newly-born child at their house. They had turned down threats and presents to hitch the CPIM, following the ouster of the second United Front authorities in West Bengal and the resignation of incumbent CM Ajay Kumar Mukherjee on March 16.
But the rising Communist regime within the State was miffed. On that fateful day in 1970, a whole lot of CPIM goons gathered outdoors the ancestral house of the Sains and commenced capturing arrows and pelting stones. They then barged into his home and dedicated some of the horrific political murders that the state had witnessed till then. The CPIM mob attacked the eldest son Naba Kumar Sain and gouged out his eyes. They additionally killed his two brothers, specifically, Pranab Kumar and Malay Kumar, in entrance of the victims’ mom Mrignayana Devi.
Even a non-public tutor by the identify of Jiten Ray, who occurred to be at Sainbari through the assault, was additionally hacked to dying. The new-born youngster was thrown into the Puja hearth (Havan) by the CPIM goons however was efficiently rescued by the members of the family. His physique nonetheless has burn marks from the incident. However, the barbaric assault didn’t cease there. In a horrendous act of violence, the mob force-fed rice to Mrignayana Devi, which was combined with the blood of her two sons Pranab and Malay. They additionally rubbed the blood on her brow.
The incident wreaked havoc on her psychological well being and she or he died 8 years later in 1978. The elder son, Naba Kumar Sain, whose eyes had been gouged out through the assault, was killed by CPIM goons the next 12 months. NSUI activist Gunamoni Roy, a watch witness to the assault, was killed earlier than he may go and depose earlier than Tarapada Roy Commission that was constituted to probe the murders. Although 83 CPIM staff had been named within the FIR, together with Khokon Sen and one CPIM chief Benoy Konar, the recordsdata miraculously went lacking after CPIM got here to energy.
Kokhon Sen went on to vary his identify to ‘Nirupam Sen’ and have become Industries Minister within the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led-government. Years later in 2011, Trinamool Congress dug up the outdated recordsdata and resumed the investigation within the case. Sen, who had led the violent mob, received the MLA seat from Bardhaman South Assembly constituency thrice in 1987, 2001, and 2006. He was additionally a member of the Central Committee of his get together in 1998 and the CPIM politburo in 2008. He died on December 24, with out dealing with any authorized penalties for his crimes whereas the Sains nonetheless await justice.