Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as we speak lashed out on the Governor’ choice to mark the state’s Basis Day. Scoffing on the declaration of June 20 because the “Basis Day” of Bengal, she identified that the state was actually born as a painful fallout of partition — an event that’s seared into the reminiscence of its folks. “The State was not based on any specific day, least of all on any 20th of June… the ache and trauma of partition was such that folks within the state have by no means commemorated any day as basis day since India’s independence,” she wrote in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose.
Declaring that she was “shocked and shocked” by the “unilateral choice”, she wrote that the method of carving out Bengal out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 “concerned uprooting of thousands and thousands of individuals throughout the border and dying and displacement of innumerable households” .
“The economic system of Bengal was destroyed and devastated and the truncated State of West Bengal suffered a sudden disruption of communication and infrastructure, too. .. Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means rejoiced over, or commemorated, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Quite, we’ve seen the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would not be resisted at that time of time,” she added.
The letter additionally talked about that the Governor was going ahead with celebrations on the Raj Bhavan regardless of their telephonic dialog the place he “had admitted that unilateral and non-consultative choice to declare a selected day because the Basis Day of the State of West Bengal is just not warranted”.
If an occasion is carried out at Raj Bhavan, it “could at greatest be a programme of a political occasion, pushed by vendetta, however not of the folks or its Authorities,” the Chief Minister added.
June 20, 1947, was the date when two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting determined whether or not Bengal Presidency could be a part of India or Pakistan.
The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability on the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab. The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders was made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.