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আমাদের ভাষা নিয়ে কেউ খেলবার চেষ্টা করবেন না : মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়

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আজ মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ঝাড়গ্রাম থেকে পাঁচমাথা মোড় পর্যন্ত মিছিলের নেতৃত্ব দেন। মিছিল শেষে পাঁচমাথা মোড়ে পথসভা করেন তিনি। সেখানে ওনার বক্তব্যের কিছু অংশ:

একসময় মানুষ ঝাড়গ্রামে আসতেন স্বাস্থ্য উদ্ধার করতে। কিন্তু বাম আমলে মানুষ গোয়ালতোড়, বেলপাহাড়ি, ঝাড়গ্রামে মানুষ আসতে ভয় পেতেন। আমি কিন্তু, আসতাম। আমার দল ক্ষমতায় আসার পরই আমি প্রথম এখানে আসি। কারণ আমি চেয়েছিলাম ঝাড়গ্রামে শান্তি ফিরে আসুক

সরকারী কর্মচারীদের ভয় দেখানো হচ্ছে। কালকে আমার ২ অফিসারকে নোটিস পাঠানো হয়েছে। কি না, তাঁদের সাসপেন্ড করা হল। আমরা বলি, তোমার নির্বাচন এখনও ঘোষণা হয়েছে? কোন আইনের বলে তুমি নোটিস পাঠাচ্ছ? সাসপেন্ড করছ। আর বলে দিচ্ছ, এফআইআর করতে হবে। হবে না। আমি কারও পানিশমেন্ট হতে দেব না। এটা মাথায় রাখবেন

আজকে অফিসারদের ভয় দেখাচ্ছ, পুলিশকে ভয় দেখাচ্ছ। শুনুন আপনাদের রক্ষা করার দায়িত্ব আমাদের। জীবন দিয়েও আপনাদের আমরা রক্ষা করব। চিন্তা করবেন না

২ মাসের জন্য নির্বাচনে আসেন। আবার উড়ে চলে যান। বসন্তের কোকিলের মতো। এখন নির্বাচনের অনেক দেরি রয়েছে। এখন থেকে সাসপেন্ড করতে শুরু করেছেন। হরিদাস সব, ক্রীতদাস সব

ওরা জানে আমি ভাঙি তবু মচকাই না। ওরা আমায় জব্দ করতে চাইলে, মানুষ ওদের স্তব্ধ করে দেবে। আমাকে শান্তিতে থাকতে দিন। আমি শান্তিতে থাকলে শান্ত হয়ে যাই। আমার বিরুদ্ধে বজ্জাতি করলে, আমি টর্নেডো হয়ে যাই। আমি সুনামি হয়ে যাই। তখন আমাকে রোখা খুব মুশকিল। জ্যান্ত বাঘের চেয়ে আহত বাঘ খুব ভয়ঙ্কর। আমাদের আহত করার চেষ্টা করবেন না

আজ বাংলা ভাষায় কথা বললে জেলে নিয়ে যাওয়া হচ্ছে। বাংলাদেশি বলা হচ্ছে। কেউ ফোন করলেই জয় বাংলা বলবেন

গায়ের জোরে ভয় দেখিয়ে যদি অত‍্যাচার করেন, তাহলে আমাদের দেহ পেরিয়ে যেতে হবে। আমরা দাঁড়িয়ে থাকব পাহারাদার হিসেবে

আজ এই মিটিং থেকে আওয়াজ উঠুক। রক্ত দেব। কলিজা দেব। কিন্তু বিনা যুদ্ধে এক ইঞ্চি জমি ছাড়ব না। আমাদের শপথ, এনআরসি করতে দিচ্ছি না, দেব না। অসম থেকে বাংলায় নোটিস পাঠাচ্ছ। সাহস তো কম নয়। নোটিস পাঠালে কেউ যাবেন না। গেলেই জেলে পুরে দেবে। আমরা আইনজীবী দিয়ে লড়ে নেব

আমাদের ভাষা নিয়ে কেউ খেলবার চেষ্টা করবেন না। কেউ অসম্মান করার চেষ্টা করবেন না। একবার যা ব্রেনে নিয়েছি, ওটা ড্রেনে যাবে না। আমরা ছোটবেলা থেকে যা শিখেছি, কেউ মেরে ফেললেও তা ভুলব না

Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen’s speech during the Special Discussion on Operation Sindoor

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: Thank you, Deputy Chairman, Sir, for giving me a chance to speak on this subject. And thanks to my party, All India Trinamool Congress and our respected leader, hon. Mamata Banerjee, for giving me this opportunity to speak. I will try to deliver my speech in Bangla, our beloved mother tongue. *“Sir, it is most unfortunate that despite repeated demands from the opposition, there was no special Session of Parliament on this issue. After three months, only now is this matter being discussed in Parliament for two or three days. Yet neither the Prime Minister, nor the Home Minister, nor even the Defence Minister has expressed any sorrow over the deaths of so many innocent citizens. They show no regret—it’s not just a lack of empathy; they are not even sorry.” It is not only that they are not feeling guilty; they are not even sorry. It is so unfortunate, Sir. “Such inhuman, insensitive rulers—this BJP government! Even while standing in the house, the External Affairs Minister is not being truthful, Sir—untruth, untruth, untruth! So sad, sir, so unfortunate!” When it came to the Pahalgam operation, on every such issue, the opposition supported the Union Government. But the hon. Prime Minister, instead, indulged in petty, low-level politics by blaming the Opposition for no reason. Not once did he mention intelligence failure, or that the Home Ministry might share some responsibility for the incident in Pahalgam, later also in Poonch, Rajouri, Jammu—so many innocents, ordinary people, so many army jawans, officers, pilots lost their lives. Yet, there is no regret, no sorrow from this Government.” “After 26/11, within four days, on November 30, 2008, the then Home Minister of India resigned, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra resigned. But here, forget even the Home Minister resigning—the head of the intelligence agency gets their term extended, gets rewarded! The Home Minister had also just spent three days in Jammu and Kashmir immediately before the Pahalgam incident. He had made grand announcements. Yet, how astonishing, after such a colossal failure, there is only arrogance! Sir, just unacceptable, condemnable—it is unimaginable. During the abrogation of Article 370, too, in a completely undemocratic manner, the Treasury Benches had suspended many opposition Members from the Rajya Sabha. That is how they passed the Bill. And what did they claim then? That terrorism would end and there would be peace and paradise in Kashmir. Has that happened? The Pahalgam incident completely disproved those claims and turned them to dust—utter dust! Yet, do they show any shame? Why couldn’t the intelligence agencies give prior warning? Why were there no guards at Baisaran Valley at that time? Why were tourists told everything was safe and allowed? Who will answer for so many deaths? Just like Pulwama, for Pahalgam too, we will never get any answers. One month, two months, three months—over 100 days have passed. Still, no trace of those terrorists. And suddenly, right after the parliamentary discussion begins, they eliminated three of them. So, did the Home Minister actually arrest these terrorists earlier just to kill them off at the time of the parliamentary debate and silence the opposition? So, astonishing, Sir. Or is this just a staggering coincidence? How can such a coincidence happen every time? Why was Article 370 removed, and under what context did a democratically elected Government make this decision, erasing that history, misleading everyone, and unilaterally abrogating it? The unique distinctiveness of the people of Kashmir—by repeatedly attacking it, isn’t this government only fostering even more terrorism? When the Standing Committee on Labour visited Srinagar, Dal Lake, Pahalgam, Sonamarg, Gulmarg, Jammu—everywhere, the ordinary people said only one thing: since independence, ours was a State. Now they’ve demoted us to a Union Territory. We cannot accept this. For such a big decision, shouldn’t the opinion of J&K’s people have been considered? Shouldn’t there have been a referendum? We are grateful to the ordinary people of Kashmir—because even after knowing that the terrorists killed selectively after knowing people’s religion, to stop this terrorism, the people of Kashmir spoke out, united, marched, protested—they played a strong role. We salute them. But merely handing over Kashmir to big corporates and businessmen is not enough. The poor people there—where will they go? What will they eat? Tourism is one of the key ways to survive there, and that has utterly collapsed. So, what are people to do now? It is tragic, that in the long speeches of the Prime Minister of “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas” , “Make In India”—the Prime Minister of a “Viksit Bharat”—there is not a word about this problem or its solution. He said that no leader from any country has told him to have a ceasefire. He even mentioned the American Vice President’s words. But the US President himself said—not once, but multiple times—that he is the one who compelled the two nations to declare a ceasefire. Our Prime Minister, however, did not counter this—neither previously, nor now, even while standing in Parliament. Sir, why couldn’t our macho “56-inch chest” Prime Minister claim in Parliament that what the US President is saying is not true? Even yesterday, after the PM’s speech, the US President repeated the same thing. So, who is right: the US President, or our hon. Prime Minister? No matter how much applause you give, what we are learning now is that the US President is our ultimate ruler, our killer—whatever he says will be done; our two countries have no autonomy to resolve issues ourselves. Why did our PM avoid, why did he hide from answering? What is he so afraid of? Is it threats of higher tariffs from foreign countries? Have we bowed our heads to such threats? So unfortunate Sir. Who can forget that in 2008, our then Gujarat Chief Minister Modi ji had given a press conference outside the Trident Hotel in Mumbai after 26/11, and the BJP took out advertisements in the papers. ‘Brutal terror strikes at will; weak Government, unwilling and incapable’”… ‘Fight terror. Vote for BJP’. This was the advertisement of the BJP. “There should be a limit to hypocrisy? Isn’t it? So, we are stating unequivocally: this Government has blood on its hands. That is why the nation and its people demand clear answers. This arrogance, this overconfidence, will not have the last word—people have brought you down from 303 to 240, and after this, they will reduce you below 200. And finally: some people are calling West Bengal “West Bangladesh.” One minute, Sir. Sir, we will adjust it within our Party’s time. Sir, one minute only. “The Government has spent 350 crores of rupees of people’s money… but not a single nation supported India.

Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra’s Zero Hour mention on the need to implement the Krishnanagar-Karimpur railway line project

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Thank you, Honourable Chairperson, Sir. First of all, I would like to speak in Bengali to protest against the ongoing attack on the Bengali language and Bengali speakers across India. My constituency is Krishnanagar. There has been a long-standing public demand for the KrishnanagarKarimpur Railway Line. During Mamata Banerjee’s tenure as the Railway Minister, she mentioned this project in the Railway budget. This Railway line is being demanded by 12 Lakh people. When I became the MP in 2019, I reiterated the importance of this project to the Railway Ministry and requested them to complete this. Honourable Railway Minister, Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw, had sanctioned 2 crores to conduct a feasibility study. That study ended in December 2023. We didn’t get any further information on that. It was informed to us by the Railway Ministry two months back, that they have decided to shelve the project for the time being. Which means they won’t be able to carry out this project at the moment. Railway is a very important medium for commuting throughout the country. The Krishnanagar-Karimpur Railway line will benefit 12 Lakh people from three assembly constituencies. You must provide a universal service. Making profit shouldn’t be the only mandate of the Railways. Even if you can’t make a profit, you still have to immediately start this railway line under the universal obligation. Please don’t shelve this and restart work on this.

Lok Sabha MP Satabdi Roy’s Zero Hour mention on the govt’s need to fund its own schemes rather than wanting MPLAD funds for them

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Honourable Chairperson Sir, I want to talk about some post offices in my Birbhum constituency, including the Margram Post Office. I know that today, in the era of email, fax, and WhatsApp, there is no value in writing letters. But apart from letters, the post office has many other functions that are executed to meet the collective demand from people. Some post offices in my area are in a dilapidated state, so when we demand renovation, the Ministry asks us to use the MP-LAD fund. You know that the MP-LAD is merely 5 crore rupees. There is a Bengali proverb which effectively means, living hand to mouth. There are some recommendations that go to the Ministry from the Post Office through us. If those are imposed on us, then we will not be able to do anything else. If the departments of the concerned ministry properly perform their tasks, then we can do something with the 5 crore rupees; or if the MP-LAD fund is increased, we will gladly do everything. Thank you.

Lok Sabha MP Mitali Bag’s Zero Hour mention on the atrocities against Bengali-speaking migrant workers

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Thank you, Honourable Chairperson Sir, for letting me speak. The people of West Bengal have been repeatedly attacked and deprived. Now the attack on the Bengali language has begun. That’s why I say Rabindranath is in everyone’s heart, Nazrul in their consciousness. Which effectively means that Bengal belongs to Rabindranath, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Matangini, Vidyasagar, and Rammohan. I strongly protest against how Bengalis are being oppressed in BJP-ruled states and are being labelled as Bangladeshi, and the Bengali language is being terrorised. We say “Look at the country’s great unity among different languages, different opinions, different clothes, and diversity”. People of all religions should live together, this is the nature of India. Then why this hypocrisy? Why is there a brutal attack on Bengalis? Today, all of a sudden people are shouting that the Rohingyas are entering India. So, does the person who has himself taken the responsibility of guarding India not know anything? When the Mumbai attack happened, Modiji told the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh-the border is yours, the BSF is yours, the coastal security is yours, then how did the infiltrators come? Why shouldn’t this question apply to Modi-ji today? Bengal wants to know, India wants to know. BJP is poking a sleeping volcano.

Lok Sabha MP Kirti Azaad’s Zero Hour mention on the government’s duty to ensure privacy of telephone numbers, with respect to spamming marketing calls

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धन्द्यवाद सभापसत महोदय, आज हमारेबीच सरकार की तरफ सेप्रभारी मिंत्री श्री असश्वनी वैष्णव जी बैिेहैंऔर प्रत्यक्ष या अप्रत्यक्ष रूप सेउनसेभी यह बात सिंबिंसधत रहेगी। मैंचाह िंगा सक उनका मेरी तरफ कुछ आकषजण रहे। महोदया, आज पहलेप्रश्न पर माननीय मिंत्री जी नेबहुत अच्छा जवाब सदया था सक सकस प्रकार सेसाइबर िाइम पर वह सनयिंत्रण कर रहेहैं। उन्द्होंनेबताया सक उन्द्होंनेकाफी लाखों टेसलफोन और ससम काडडजस को सलॉक सकया है। लेसकन क्या इनको सलॉक करना हमारेउद्देश्य की पूसतजकरता है। स्पैम कॉल्स 146.3 करोड़ लोगों को हर रोज़ दजजनों के सहसाब सेसमलता है। इसमें ससवजस प्रोवाइडसज आधार काडज सेसलिंक ससम काडज देतेहैं। लेसकन बड़ी-बड़ी कबपसनयािं, जैसे– असभनिंदन लोढ़ा, पीएनबी मैटलाइफ, आईसीआईसीआई लोबबाडज, एचडीएफसी बयचुूअल फिं ड हैं, इनको सदया जाता है। इनके निंबर मैंनेबार-बार सदए हैंऔर सलॉक भी हुए हैं, उसकेबावजूद भी निंबर आतेहैं। मैंसरकार सेयह जानना चाहता ह िं सक क्या वह इन बड़ी किंपसनयों को बिंद करगे ी? क्योंसक यह जड़ है। इस जड़ को खत्म सकया जाए, क्योंसक एक निंबर सलॉक कर, ें दूसरा, तीसरा कर, ेंलेसकन वेएक, दो और तीन हजार ससम काडजलेलेंगेक्योंसक उनकेपास पैसा है। ऐसेमें, मैंसरकार सेयह जानना चाहता ह िं सक क्या ससम काडजकी जगह इन बड़ी-बड़ी कबपसनयों – असभनिंदन लोढ़ा, पीएनबी मैटलाइफ, एचडीएफसी लाइफ, आईसीआईसीआई इिंश्योरसें और ऐसी ही बहुत सारी कबपसनयािंहैं क्या उनको बिंद करगे ी? जसस्टस के.एस. पत्तुस्ुवामी वसेस यूसनयन ऑफ इिंसडया मेंप्राइवेसी में आसटजकल 121 मेंमरेी प्राइवेसी है। वह मरेा फिं डामेंटल राइट है। इसका उल्लिंघन हो रहा है। मैं सरकार सेयह कहना चाहता ह िं If the Government cannot stop industry-backed data theft and spam nuisance, how can it protect us from AI-driven cyber frauds? यहािंहमारेमाननीय मिंत्री श्री असश्वनी वैष्णव उपसस्थत हैंऔर मैंआशा करता ह िं सक उन्द्होंनेइसका सिंज्ञान सलया होगा और इसके ऊपर कारजवाई होगी। जो ससवजस प्रोवाइडसजहैं, जो सोसजहै, उसको बिंद करगेंे। ससम काडजबिंद करनेसेकोई फायदा नहीं होनेवाला है। एक, दो या दस हजार तक सलॉक करतेरसहए, येनय-ेनयेलेतेरहेंगे। बहुत-बहुत धन्द्यवाद।

Lok Sabha MP Pratima Mondal’s supplementaries to her starred question to the PM on the key aims of, and safety measures for, the Gaganyaan Mission and steps being taken to develop space start-ups

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Sir, the Department of Space headed by our hon. Prime Minister has only provided a sketchy statement about various schemes which are implemented through space technology across the country. I would like to know from the hon. Minister what are the key milestones achieved under Ganganyaan Mission and how the Government is ensuring technological self-reliance and astronaut safety. Sir, I would like to ask the hon. Prime Minister if he could please elaborate the steps being taken to promote the development of small and medium-scale space startups, including funding support, technology sharing, and incubation infrastructure?

Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar’s speech during the discussion on the extension of President’s Rule in Manipur for another six months

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Hon. Chairperson Madam. As a representative of my party the All India Trinamool Congress, I am strongly opposing the resolution to reinstate Article 356 in Manipur which will further push the people of the state into darkness. Manipur has been burning for more than two years. On the instructions of our Honorable leader and Chief Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee, as a part of the team of All India Trinamool Congress, I went to Manipur and saw the deplorable condition. Yet the Prime Minister didn’t visit Manipur even once. He is touring the world but didn’t feel the need to visit Manipur. Terrorists are infiltrating across our international borders. We have witnessed terrorists entering our land in April and killing 26 people. Similarly, terrorists from Myanmar are entering Manipur with Arms and drugs. There is sufficient evidence of their involvement in subversive activities as well. These border areas are not being properly maintained. President’s rule can’t be a permanent solution. This is an emergency provision of the constitution- which is designed to be temporary. Its repetition is a mockery of democracy, an insult to the rule of law, and an admission of the utter failure of the central government. It is the ideal of a democracy to establish a government through electoral process. If we employ Article 356 in the state, that doesn’t reflect the people’s consensus. Manipur was recognized as a state in 1972. The Bharatiya Janata Party government was established there through 2 elections in 2017 and 2022. The government has been an utter failure in that state. … We have seen the Archeological Survey of India report. The Meitei community are 53 per cent of the population in the state but they only own 11 per cent land. The Kuki and Naga indigenous communities live in the hills, they possess hilly lands. …The cultivation of Opium is rising there. During the tenure of Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017 and 2022, the Opium cultivation has risen from 1853 acres to 6743 acres. The BJP government couldn’t stop Opium Cultivation. According to the United Nations report, the Government is unable to stop the drugs, opium, arms and terrorists infiltrating from Myanmar. The law-andorder situation is in turmoil. This is an embarrassment for India. The first and foremost duty of the country is to provide security to their citizens. More than 200 people have died. Women have been paraded naked in the streets. We have witnessed it. More than 60000 people have lost their homes and are living in the relief camps. I have visited and seen pregnant women delivering their babies in the relief camps. There has been a scarcity of medicine and food. Homes are being burnt down. Temples and Churches being burnt down. There is no brotherhood amongst the communities. The Bharatiya Janata Party government is to be entirely blamed for this condition. The President’s rule isn’t the solution. … : Honourable Speaker Sir, on behalf of the All India Trinamool Congress, I stand in the Parliament with deep sorrow and with a demand for justice to strongly oppose the proposal to re-impose President’s Rule i.e. Article 356 in Manipur and to extend its duration. I have seen with my own eyes the kind of social justice that has been trampled on and how people are dying in Manipur over the last few years. On behalf of the All India Trinamool Congress, we have come to this consensus that we cannot support the re-deployment of Article 356 in any way. On the instructions of our Honorable leader Mamata Banerjee, I myself went to Manipur in 2023. We saw how human rights were violated and how people were killed there. There are people from the Meitei community who are Vaishnavites, and just as their temples have been burnt; the churches of the Kuki community who are Christians have also been burnt. There is no development there, development has come to a standstill. The President’s rule was imposed on the state. But this can’t be the long-term solution. This is an emergency provision of the constitution- which is designed to be temporary. Its repetition is a mockery of democracy, an insult to the rule of law, and an admission of the utter failure of the central government. I want to say that Manipur was recognized as a state in 1972. And the Bharatiya Janata Party government was established there through 2 elections in 2017 and 2022. But in the subsequent stage, the former Chief Minister of the State and the United Nations expressed concern on Manipur’s deteriorating condition post-2022. In the hills where the Kuki community lives, from 1853 acres, opium is now cultivated in 6,743 acres. And how are these drugs, weapons, and terrorists entering from the neighbouring country Myanmar? The long-standing unrest in Manipur, and the horrors we have witnessed, should have prompted the Honorable Prime Minister to go there at least once so that he could help the people. Therefore, we want a government to be established there through a democratic electoral process so that democracy can be re-established. More than 60,000 people are in camps, 5,000 houses have been burnt, over 200 people have died. Women have lost their dignity and respect. There is no progress in Manipur today. Therefore, instead of re-instating Article 356, elections should be held within 3 months to establish an elected Government so that peace can be restored and development can take place there. I have expressed my support for establishing a peaceful coexistence between the Meitei and Kuki communities as in the past. Thank you.