Gopal Mukherjee Mukhopadhyay - The Angel who saved Kolkata
The below are from the pages of history which inspires us to Forgive but not forget. Jinnah chose Kolkata (Calcutta) for his Direct Action day coz he wanted to have Kolkata in Pakistan. Kolkata was a major business city of India at that time, & Jinnah didn’t want to lose Kolkata! The mission to Make Kolkata Hindu-free was given to Suhrawardy, who was Chief Minister of Bengal, & loyal to Jinnah. At that time, Calcutta had 64% Hindus and 33% Muslims in 1946. Suhrawardy started to execute his plan on 16th August - a strike was declared by him & all Muslims closed their shops, & gathered in masjid. It was Friday,18th day of Ramzan, and after namaz, a Muslim mob started to butcher Hindus! And as Suhrawardy expected, Hindus didn’t show any resistance, and easily succumbed to Muslim mobs. Suhrawardy assured the Muslim mobs, that he has instructed the Police to not come in the way of their mission. Mobs of lakhs of Muslims, armed with iron rods, swords and other dangerous ...