Sanchita Chatterjee, BS News Agency: Very famous writer. From what I saw of her speech, I felt that she is living in the past 26 years. She has completely forgotten the development that has taken place in India and West Bengal in the last 25-26 years. She knows Muslims well, talks about fundamentalism. But Bangladesh and West Bengal are not the same!
Talking about the development during Mamata Banerjee's tenure, Kalyan said, today, since the end of the Left era in West Bengal and the Trinamool era, a lot of development has been done for Muslims. Not only Muslim men but also women have been the sharers of that development. Taslima probably has not seen Muslim girls going to school on bicycles in the villages of West Bengal. Many of them are becoming doctors, many great educators are being made from them. They have gone to very high places. Are there no such women among Hindus? Those who cannot study. Those who live in slums! Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin was forced to leave Kolkata 19 years ago due to the protests of fundamentalists. She returned to Kolkata after 19 years and spoke a lot about fundamentalism, fanaticism, extremism, and the development of Muslim society. This time, Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee countered this. 'In the same country, people's rights cannot be different on the basis of religion', Taslima argues in favor of uniform rules
The argument of welfare, the real issue is not religion or caste, the real issue is how far behind someone is financially. If someone is financially backward, then whether he is Hindu or Muslim has an impact. Education is the real thing. If you can be educated in real education, you can fight all kinds of obstacles. I did not see anywhere in her speech about the development of that education system, the development of the economic and social context.
The Trinamool MP, while talking about fundamentalism, said, "Whose call did he come to? Whom did he come to? The one who talks about Muslim fundamentalism! The Bengal Chief Minister who welcomed him is a staunch Hindu. He wants a Hindu Rashtra, he only wants Hindutva. So where is the difference? And the Constitution of India cannot be changed by his words. Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution talk about the protection of minorities. That protection must be given. The state will not look at any religion. But does he know that Muslims are being persecuted in West Bengal regardless of religion. Does he know that those Hindus who do not say 'Jai Shri Ram' are also being attacked. Does he know that?