12th February 2009 – Bandh in North Bengal

The Bangla O Bangla Bhasa Bachao Committee(now that’s something beyond absurdity) has convened a 24-hour north Bengal bandh on 12 February to protest against the ‘acts of vandalism’ being indulged into by the GJMM and also against the Centre and the state government's ‘appeasement policy’ vis-à-vis the growing graph of the GJMM-instigated subversion in the Darjeeling hills and in the plains.
These demands, reported by The Telegraph, is more than what can be chewed. But brace up for a bandh whatsoever.
BOBBBC president Dr Mukunda Majumder said today that his organisation would spare no effort to mobilise public opinion against the GJMM-sponsored hooliganism. “The hill party activists, having intentionally brought the separatist momentum down in the plains, have been attacking the tribals and the people of other ethnic communities, including journalists, police and petty traders, with impunity”.