| No Images? Click here   What sounds like a routine complaint about school teachers turned into a communal conflagration last September and brought life to a halt in Darivit, a small village in Islampur, West Bengal .The ripples of the riot, which left two young men dead and another with a bullet wound to his leg, continue to this day and are likely to affect the election scheduled for 18 April.A year on, the deadly argument over the appointment of an Urdu teacher to a local school illustrates how the ruling Trinamool Congress’s sops to the male religious heads of the Muslim community, and the BJP’s relentless efforts to instil fear in the minds of Hindu voters that they will become a minority in Bengal, have created an almost unbridgeable gulf between the two communities. New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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