Jharkhand is a newly formed state of India, and formerly belonged to Bihar state. According to the Samaja policy of Prout given by Shrii P.R. Sarkar, a major part of it comes under the area of Bangalistan. The original inhabitants of the state are people of Bengali origin and also of Nagpuri Samaj. Apart from these two original inhabitants, other people have settled in this area who come from Angika, Maethili, Magahi and Bhojpuri Samajas. Sixty-four percent of the total population in this state speak in Bengali. In spite of this fact, the state government imposed the Hindi language as the state language against the wishes and aspirations of the majority of the state population.
The government of Jharkhand very recently declared Bengali as the second language of the state, just to strengthen their vote bank, as a direct result of the constant pressure of Amra Bangali and the Bengali speaking population of the state. Amra Bangali demands that being the language of the majority, Bengali should be declared as the official state language of the state and not merely the second official language. The secondary language of the state should not be Hindi, but in fact should be Nagpuri.
To establish the rightful place of Bengali in the state of Jharkand, Amra Bangali is organising a massive rally of an expected 10,000 people in the name of "Ranchi Chalo" or "March to Ranchi" on 28th March 2007. Amra Bangali will submit a memorandum to the Governor and other higher officials of the state of Jharkhand as well as Central Government officials. Amra Bangali has already launched a Mass Signature Campaign in support of its demand to make Bengali language the official state language of Jharkhand. It has so far collected more than 20,000 signatures, and has a target to collect 100,000 signatures by the date of the March.
While campaigning on this issue, our workers have received a thrilled and enthusiastic response from the people of West Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Bokharo, Pakur, Saraikela, Dumka, Godda and Deoghar districts. They also received a warm welcome and participation from the areas of Bundu, Tamar, Sonahatu, Arki, and Angora blocks of Ranchi district.
Our representatives are visiting schools, colleges, universities and other public institutions to appeal to everyone to participate in this mass signature campaign and also request their strong support for this cause. One of our representatives went to the Haldi Pukur Boy's Higher Secondary School of Patka Block and contacted the Headmistress of the school. She was overwhelmed by the idea of this movement. She complained to our representative that although all the students of the school are from local Bengali families, they do not get any curriculum for teaching Bengali, no aids, no teachers, so they are forced to study in Hindi. She told our representative that she wholeheartedly supports the demand of Amra Bangali and asked how she can help us. Our representative told her about the March and also about the mass signature campaign that we have launched. She immediately called all the class teachers and requested all of them to support this movement. She provided sheets of paper to all of them and requested them to each collect maximum signatures in favour of this movement. After a short while, the teachers came back from all their classes and gave the papers to our representative. They had collected 850 signatures, including the signatures of senior students, teachers, guardians and the employees of the school. From another school at Baram of Patamda block the same representative obtained 300 signatures on the spot. We are all thrilled to receive such a positive response from people of all sections of the society. We appeal to all rational people of the world to support this movement and make it a grand success.
Amra Bangali (meaning "We are Bengalis") is the political party in West Bengal working to estabish a PROUT economy on the ground in that region. They work for economic and political democracy. The party works in West Bengal, Tripura, Bihar, Orissa, assam and Jharkhand - all Bengali-speaking areas. It works towards the following: (1) Restoration and development of Bengali language and culture; (2) Economic self-sufficiency; (3) Self-determination in the socio-political field; (4) Re-organization of the territory of Bengal with all like-minded people having respect for Bengali language and culture, and name this new geographical area as "Bangalistan." The Amra Bangali party is working for economic democracy based on spreading cooperatives. For this very reason, it faces direct opposition from the Communist Party in West Bengal. At present companies from outside Bengal come in and exploit the people economically. Furthermore, refugees occupy 200,000 jobs in the jute mills, leaving thousands of local Bengalis without jobs or means of survival. Millions of rupees leave Bengal annually. Nearly 70 percent of the land and homes of Kolkata are owned by non-Bengalis. Bengal's precious minerals such as iron and coal are sold to other states, and Bengal is forced to purchase such basic staples as oil and sugar from outside the state. These are only a few of the injustices which Amra Bangali highlights and aims to correct.
Posted by proutist-universal on March 9, 2007 03:07 AM
