By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter
Guwahati: Several organizations and individuals have slammed the Assam and Nagaland Governor PB Acharya for making communally inciting statement.
The statement was made during a lecture that Acharya was delivering at the Mayapur Temple in West Bengal. “People get punished for taking the name of Krishna in some northeastern states,” was what Acharya said on March 26 earlier this year but it came to light only now after a video of the speech has gone viral on the social media.
The Governor is not new to such controversies. He had drawn criticism a few weeks ago as he said all the ‘Hindu refugees’ should be included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list.
“There are some states where Krishna names cannot be taken. It’s forbidden in our own country. If you say ‘Hare Krishna Hare Krishna’, you will be punished. Such places are also there in northeast. To change this mindset and to take the Krishna philosophy to all the corners of northeast, club the all eight states with one name NAMASTE (Nagaland, Arunachal, Manipur/Meghalaya/Mizoram, Assam, Sikkim and Tripura: East),” Acharya said during his speech.
The speech is available on Mayapur TV website Prabhupada katha lecture by His Excellency P.B Acharya
Terming it as unfortunate, the All BTC Minorities Students’ Union (ABMSU) has slammed the governor: “This is unfortunate that the constitutional head of the state has made such a cheap statement. We condemn his attitude. The governor is supposed to be the head of the state and he is expected to behave in the most neutral way. But he turns out to be an agent of RSS,” said ABMSU general secretary Lafiqul Islam Ahmed.
The students’ body is also planning to write to the President against such behavior of the governor which can create communal tension in the region.
Slamming this attitude of the Governor, Char Chapori Sahitya Parishad (CCSP) president Hafiz Ahmed has come down heavily on Acharya.
“We have already sensed him to be an agent of RSS. Now will the governor come up with an example of instance when and where a person was ever persecuted in the North East just because he/she was a Hindu? Such false propaganda from a governor can cause immense harm to the North East people and to the secular fabric of our country,” said CCSP president Hafiz Ahmed.
He also said that the majority of Indians have very little knowledge about the North East. In such a situation it is very unfortunate that constitutional heads should give wrong information to the country, that too with ulterior motives. “We, the people of North East, strongly condemn such motives,” he added.
Earlier, a few weeks ago, Acharya had mentioned that all the ‘Hindu refugees’ should be included in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) list.
The NRC is a document containing the names of Indian citizens prepared in 1951.
Unique to the state of Assam, this document was prepared to distinguish Indian citizens from illegal migrants from then East Pakistan. The 1951 NRC certificate, along with the electoral roll in the voters’ list of 1966 and 1971 are the two important documents required to prove the citizenship in Assam, where propaganda about illegal Bangladeshi is rampant and often violent.
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