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“It is now time for all groups who are disappointed with this regime to come together. Not only teachers, doctors and students, but also lawyers and other professionals. People have to come up with an alternative to both the TMC and the BJP.
“Mamata Banerjee has crossed the limit and Bengal just does not accept the BJP because it considers it communal and casteist.
“The TMC cannot go on forever taking advantage of the people's fright of the BJP -- to get the votes of people who don't like her but vote for her to keep the BJP out.
“She wins on their vote and then her goons keep threatening people and some of her elected representatives make obscene amounts of money.
“There is now a growing section that feels let us shock her. Come what may let us shock her. This is a very dangerous thing as the BJP could gain.
“People who are determined not to vote for the TMC or the BJP feel the Third Front of the Left and Congress will benefit and once the TMC's numbers and arrogance comes down, we may get a cleaner and more efficient Bengal."

বিষয়টিকে ‘নিরামিষতন্ত্রের দমনপীড়ন’ হিসেবে দেখছেন প্রাক্তন সাংসদ তথা আমলা জহর সরকার। তাঁর কথায়, “আমি জানতাম এই রকম জুলুম হবে। বারংবার প্রমাণ হচ্ছে যে, নিরামিষাশীরা কিছুতেই ভারতের ৩০ শতাংশের বেশি নয়, অথচ সেখানে তারা ক্রমাগত ৭০ শতাংশ আমিষাশীদের ওপর দাদাগিরি চলিয়ে যাচ্ছে — একমাত্র রাজনৈতিক শক্তির জোরে। হিন্দি হিন্দু হিন্দুত্ব কায়েম করার জন্যে উঠেপড়ে লেগেছে।” তাঁর কথায়, “হিন্দু ধৰ্ম বরাবর বহুত্বে বিশ্বাস করে এসেছে কিন্তু এখন তাকে সঙ্কীর্ণ একরূপ অভিন্ন ব্র্যান্ডে পরিণত করা হচ্ছে। আহারের স্বাধীনতা সংবিধান স্বীকৃত গণতান্ত্রিক অধিকার। মাছ বাঙালিদের শুধু খাদ্য নয়, আমাদের সংস্কৃতির প্রতীক। ইচ্ছাকৃত ভাবে আমাদের হেনস্থা আর অপমান করা হচ্ছে আর এর পিছনে আরএসএস, বিজেপি কর্তাদের ইন্ধন নিশ্চয় আছে।”

"মানুষ আমাকে জিজ্ঞেস করে, আমি কেন তৃণমূলের সাংসদ পদ থেকে ইস্তফা দিয়েছি'। আমার বিবেক কি আমাকে এমন পচে যাওয়া দলের অংশ হওয়ার অনুমতি দিতে পারে? তৃণমূল সাম্প্রদায়িক বিজেপির কঠিনতম প্রতিদ্বন্দ্বী বলেই আমি সেখানে যোগ দিয়েছিলাম, কিন্তু দুর্নীতির জন্যই আমি দল ছেড়েছি।"

“People ask me why I resigned as MP of Trinamool Congress. Would my conscience allow me to be a part of such rot?” Sircar wrote on his X. “I went with the Trinamool Congress as it is the toughest fighter against communal, fascist BJP. I left because Trinamool’s corruption and authoritarianism were getting too bad.”

In the presentation, titled ‘Aniconic to the Iconic’, Jawhar Sircar explained how the evolution of a deity in Hinduism also alters the ways in which it is worshipped.

Former Union culture secretary Jawhar Sircar, who later went on to become a member of the Rajya Sabha from the Trinamool Congress before resigning in September 2024 over the West Bengal government’s handling of a rape and murder case, has been expressing concern over the larger Central Vista project and specifically the National Museum ever since the plans were announced. He also used his position as MP to ask questions of the culture minister about the plans, but does not believe he received honest or straightforward answers.

“Gurusaday Dutt’s wife was beside her husband but not in the same kind of work. She chose her area of work. She first started working in Pabna (now in Bangladesh) with women who were under purdah,” said Jawhar Sircar, former MP and retired IAS officer, the chief guest....

“In the 1920s, it had a very profound impact. At the cutting edge, she played a big role — at the grassroots level not only at the educated level. Nari Sikha would later on become a model for women’s development after Independence,” Sircar told The Telegraph.