No Muslims in Bengal cabinet for the first time in more than half a century
Suvendu Adhikari ministry expansion means that even the minority affairs department will have a non-minority minister.
All 41 ministers are Hindu !!
The Ayodhya verdict of 2019 was the first "cornerstone" of a Hindu Rashtra
Now the state that gave Syama Prasad Mookerjee has emerged as the 'second mega Cornerstone' of the same Hindu Rashtra
On Nov 9th, 2019, a bench of five judges headed by CJI Ranjan Gogoi had concluded that a modern Hindu temple ought to be built atop the ruins of a Babur-period mosque.
It gave credence to the sentiment of faith of the Hindus that the Ram temple was destroyed by Babur and a mosjid was erected at the exact spot of Ram Lalla’s birthplace.
The apex court’s final decision was based on modern faith and history. Much of the judgment was in consistent with "Hindutva ideology".
But Sickular elements still thrived. Mamata Banerjee made a virtue of insulting Hindus and Hindu deities. She started posing as a Muslim woman praying ! She thought such a way was her roadmap for 'power in eternity'. In the meantime; she promoted her nephew his arrogance and goondaism of lupmen elements in her party.
Then came the two phases of polling in 2026 and 'aapa' has been voted out.
Thanks to Muslim appeasement; now a fact that must be clearly understood is that Hindus believe that the Hindu community and the Sanatana Dharma are facing a very real threat to their long-term survival.
After centuries of persecution, the Hindu society has been systematically pushed to the edge of the cliff. Tragically, Hindus were blissfully oblivious of this but the mandate of 2026 in West Bengal is a "redfining" moment of Hindu assertion.
The message had gone down well ... If Hindus and Sanatana Dharma are to survive into the next century and beyond they need to act NOW!
While the ruling BJP had not fielded a single Muslim in the Assembly elections, with some senior leaders openly saying they did not need minority votes, the Constitution allows non-lawmakers to be inducted into governments provided they get elected within six months.
West Bengal, where almost a third of the voters are Muslim, has almost always had minority presence in the ministry.
Among the few exceptions was the state’s first government after Independence, under then “Premier” Prafulla Chandra Ghosh.
Every Bengal government of the past 54 years, starting with Siddhartha Shankar Ray’s Congress government of 1972, has had prominent Muslim faces in the council of ministers.
There were no Muslims in the Bengal government till S.M. Fazlur Rahman won from Kaliganj in the first Assembly elections in 1952. He handled departments such as animal husbandry, fisheries, and local self-government in the Bidhan Chandra Roy and Prafulla Chandra Sen cabinets.
During its 34 years in power, the Left Front had Muslim ministers like Abdur Razzak Molla, Mohammed Amin, Anisur Rahaman and Mostafa Bin Quasem.
Both the Speakers, Syed Abdul Mansur Habibullah and Hashim Abdul Halim, too were Muslim. Was it Jyoti Basu's style of appeasement ?
Nevertheless, I had interacted with Hashim Abdul Halim, Speaker in the 1990s, and found him reasonably capable and objective personality. His understanding of parliamentary and legislative norms was also highly appreciable.
As stated above, Mamata Banerjee’s 15-year reign was a defacto Islamic rule.
Her ministry featured Firhad Hakim, who is still Kolkata mayor, and he had once said that Kolkata could be turned into a Dhaka 'soon'.
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Javed Ahmed Khan, Md Ghulam Rabbani and Siddiqullah Chowdhury, among others, as prominent Muslim faces in the government.
North, districts rule In a state where the competitive wooing of the minority vote has been a key aspect of electoral politics, Monday’s developments seemed to mark a shift to geographical concessions, with north Bengal and rural areas the winners.
The northern districts, whose long-held grievances about economic and cultural neglect under the Left and Trinamool had turned them into BJP fortresses, have secured 10 ministerial berths — after having been rewarded with the election of Rathindra Bose as Speaker.
Mathabhanga MLA Nisith Pramanik, sworn in with Suvendu, has now been joined by Siliguri MLA Shankar Ghosh, Falakata MLA Dipak Burman and Kumargram MLA Manoj Oraon in the cabinet.
The rest are junior ministers.
Suvendu's ministry expansion has also shattered the decades-old south Calcutta hegemony, one represented by Hakim, Aroop Biswas, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Javed Ahmed Khan, Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee and Sovan Chatterjee, apart from Mamata Banerjee herself.
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The Shrinking Muslim presence in legislative bodies:
While Muslim representation in the country’s legislative bodies has always been low, it has shown an accelerated decline in the past 12 years, coinciding with the rise of the BJP and the supremacy of majoritarian politics.
This is a case of appeasement policy towards Muslims boomerang in multiple states. Once Madhya Pradesh had no single Muslim MLA.
On the whole, Muslim MLAs account for 13 per cent of elected State legislators; the percentage is 1 per cent lower than the proportion of the community in the country’s population. (Frontline magazine)
A closer look at the State-wise figures, especially in West Bengal and Assam, shows a decline in the number of Muslim legislators.
In West Bengal, where the Assembly has 294 seats, the number has come down from 42 in the previous Assembly to 40. The fall is more pronounced in Assam, which has 126 seats: from 31 in the previous Assembly to 22 in the new one.
However, in Kerala, which has 140 Assembly seats, the number has risen: from 32 in the previous Assembly to 35 in the new one.
In Tamil Nadu’s 234-member House, the number has gone up from 6 to 9. Puducherry has only 1 Muslim MLA in a House of 30 legislators, like last time.
Wrap up:
Hindus are coming together globally through large-scale socio-cultural gatherings, spiritual congregations, and community-driven awareness initiatives.
This movement focuses on cultural preservation, economic collaboration, and the propagation of Dharma.
It might have started with Gujarat in 2002 when Sickular frauds attacked Hindus for no reason or rhyme. That Hindu unity is today a kind of fundamentalism. It is spreading. West Bengal mandate marks a huge tectonic shift.
Now Hindus are rejoicing that Muslims representatives are less. It's poetic justice for them.
Many say the only way to achieve Hindu assertion and unity is by the Hindus coming together and demanding official State protection for themselves and Dharma by declaring Bharat a Hindu Rashtra.
Why does Bharat need to become a Hindu Rashtra? People will answer themselves.
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