Tripura guv tweets his way to another controversy

AGARTALA: Tripura governor Tathagata Roy again found himself in controversy after a recent tweet in which he congratulated Shyama Prasad Mookherjee for creating

AGARTALA: Tripura governor Tathagata Roy again found himself in controversy after a recent tweet in which he congratulated Shyama Prasad Mookherjee for creating West Bengal, due to which he, as a Bengali Hindu, could live with dignity.

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He tweeted, “Before I go to sleep let me thank the great SPM who created West Bengal, becz of whom I as a Bengali Hindu can live with my head held high.”

Mookherjee and others established a claim for separate land for Hindu Bengalis within the Indian territory. Accordingly, members of the Bengal Legislative Assembly cast three separate votes in favour of the partition of Bengal on June 20, 1947.

Under the Mountbatten Plan, a single majority vote in favour of partition had divided half of the Assembly, thus the house proceedings came to the decision to partition Bengal by creating West Bengal as a province of the Union of India while East Bengal as a province of Pakistan.

Just a month before this, he had invited controversy by putting out a tweet in which he accused the Pakistan army of butchering around 10,000 Hindus during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Roy had tweeted, “Yes, 20 May 1971, at Chuknagar, Khulna, Bangladesh, Paki Army & Razakar butchers killed 8,00010,000 unarmed Hindus by bullets, bayonets & stampede.”