Fight for the Rights of Bengali Refugees in Parliament – Praful Patel

Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanway Samiti

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Fight for the Rights of Bengali Refugees in Parliament – Praful Patel

24.2.2013

A mass meeting was organized under the banner of Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanvay 

Samiti (NiBBUSS) in Gondia district of Maharastra wherein more than 3000 active members of 

NiBBUSS participated to share their concerns to honorable Heavy Industries Minister Sri Praful 

Bhai Patel on 24.2.2013. Dr. Subodh Biswas, the National President of NiBBUSS shared the dais 

with many other distinguished guests such as Sri Anil Deshmukh, honorable minister of 

Maharastra Government, Sri Rajendra Jain, MLA etc. 

Sri Bidhan Bepari submitted 3 appeals to honorable minister requesting for citizenship 

amendment, caste reservation and land rights. Dr Biswas said, our ancestors dedicated their 

lives in freedom fights of India but in the independent India their successors (we) have no 

identity rather we are blamed as infiltrators. Based on 'two nation theory' and the promises of 

Mahatma Gandhi & Nehru we took abode in India but still we are deprived off our 

constitutional rights. By amending citizenship act in 2003, a question mark is put in our Indian 

nationality status. Those who dedicated their lives in freedom fight of India, their successors are 

blamed as infiltrators in India. India got freedom in the leadership of Netaji Subhash Chandra 

Bose but today the same Bengalis are begging for their rights, is there any other saddest 

chapter in Indian history than this? We lost our ancestral properties in bringing freedom to 

India but we were displaced in 18 states by government of India and even after 65 years of 

independence we are still deprived off our fundamental rights. 

Honorable Minister Sri Praful Bhai Patel accepted the greater contribution of Bengalis in 

freedom fight of India and promised that the Rastravadi Congress Party will fight for the rights 

of these displaced Bengalis within and outside Parliament. Honorable Minister expressed his 

dissatisfaction for not being given the land rights to these communities though they in position 

of the land for last 50 years. He reiterated that the caste reservation shall be at par with other 

states like Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Manipur, Orissa and West Bengal. He was sad to know that 

the amendment to citizenship act in 2003 by BJP government devastated the lives of displaced 

Bengalis in India and assured the gathering that his party would take cognizance of it to fight it Nikhil Bharat Bangali Udbastu Samanway Samiti

3, Bajrang Nagar, Jadumahal Road, Nagpur-27, Maharastra, Cell: 9422128897, Email: subodhbiswas1@gmail.com

inside the parliament. He proudly announced that these Bengalis are our brothers and sisters as 

they are original son of the soil.

Sri Anil Deshmukh said that he would try and resolve all state level problems by a convening a 

cabinet meeting; he assured that they will not tolerate any further deprivation of these 

communities in India. The local MLA also promised to take up these issues at appropriate levels.

Office bearers of NiBBUSS such as Sri Nirmal Mondal, Sri Bidhan Bepari, Sri Shailen Khairati, Sri 

Narayan Sadhu, Sri Shailen Mallik, Sri Kanu Sarkar, Sri Uday Sarkar, Sri Tarapada, Smt Geeta 

Sarkar, Smt Kanan Mondal, Sri Sunil Sardar etc. were also present on the occasion.