Broken Images of Durga Puja….Tension grown in Khardaha

Broken Images of Durga Puja….Tension grown in Khardaha

Barrack pore (West Bengal): Only the Idol of  Goddess Durga remains intact. But other idols of  her children are ruthlessly damaged. Some of them were seen without hands, some of them are hacked to neck. In Khardah in Barrackpore sub-division, tension raised to see such an unprecedented iconoclast work in a Public Durga Puja Pandal in the early morning. Police reached to the spot immediately to check the spreading of tension. But the rituals are continued in the auspicious pitcher of Devi ( Mangal Ghat of Devi ). The Organisers of the Puja Committee under the banner of Boys Club of P.K. Biswas Road told to the representative of Hindu Existence that till Friday Midnight the normalcy was uninterrupted, but perhaps in the early hours of  Mahashtami i.e. on 26th Sept, the anti Hindu miscreant did this highly condemnable work unnoticed. All the club members and the visitors were thronged till mid night of Maha Saptami. The Organisers did not care for  any night guard in fact. In Saturday early morning the local residents found the broken images of Lakshmi, Swaraswati, Kartik, Ganesh and the images of Lord Rama, Lakshmana and Hanuman in a nearby puja place.

The local area is of a mixed in nature. For a political gain no political party did not show any pro-activeness to arrest the culprits. The local Hindus in morose and did a ‘prayaschitta’ > holy purification rather than to search the culprits to punish them. The Muslims of the area remain silent and some of them (local shop keepers, rickshaw pullers coming illegally from Bangladesh) expressed their religious belief against idolatry. They do not like to be sympathetic in this regard. The Left Parties in the local level think that all these are out of local disputes between different clubs and puja committees. But the Police and the local Administration are totally unsuccessful to keep security measures in Hindu Pujas in this specific case.

Sri Asoke Kumar Balmiki, local councillor of Khardaha Municipality told Hindu Existence not to highlight this matter anymore. But he is not sure whether the unidentified miscreants are Muslims or not. After Vijoya Dashami he may investigate the matter otherwise. He appealed to everybody not to lose the festive mood any way in this puja ceremony.

In this situation what can Hindu Do all about?

Yes do not perform Dharma meaninglessly. Please Join the War of Maha Bharata. Performing Dharma is a War and Sadhna to Save Dharma. Join this War. And take the weapons from the hands of Hindu Gods and Goddess to win this fight against the Ashura- Devils, may be the Muslims or Christians or the Culprit Hindus. 

Untill Qudir Shaikh in Gandhinagar Mumbai, Sujauddin of Belpukur or Unidentified iconoclast in Khardah are punished severely, what is the meaning of Durgapuja by Hindus ?????