Bangla Pokkho

Bangla Pokkho majorly demands 100% reservation for residents of West Bengal in fields of Government job[2] and 90% reservation in other job sectors, education, military, administration works.[3] The group has done numerous meetings, gatherings and rallies throughout many places of West Bengal and Tripura.[2][4]

Massive controversy broke out when in the second season of webseries ‘Abhay’, released on OTT platform Zee5, young Bengali freedom fighter Khudiram Bose was shown as a ‘criminal’ in its second episode. Bangla Pokkho along with many nationalist organisations protested and demanded the show to be banned.[5] The group sent a legal notice to remove the scene.[6] After that Zee5 edited and re-released the show cutting out the Khudiram image.[7]

The group opposed the CAA, NRC, planned by the central government to be implemented in Bengal. Bangla Pokkho said that the BJP unlawfully had passed the laws in the parliament to break the unity of Hindus and Muslims.[8]

The group also protested against the idea of formation of Gorkhaland. They fired an idol of Subramaniyam Swami who proposed to make a separate state from West Bengal namely Gorkhaland [9]

1. Bangla Pokkho along with Kanchanpur Nagarik Surakkha Mancha meet in a big protest in Tripura, that gathered more than 30,000 Bengalis in Tripura, complaining against social discrimination of Bengalis by the Tripura state BJP Government.[10]

• The organisation has also faced criticism for promoting racism and hatered against non-bengali speaking people and hatered towards Hindi language.
• In June 2020 in Dibrugarh, Assam, an FIR was filed against Garga Chatterjee the founder of organisation and member of TMC charging him for insulting the Ahom community. Sukapha, the founder of the Ahom dynasty that governed Assam for 600 years, was referred to as a "Chinese invader" by Garga Chatterjee.The remarks led to widespread outrage on social media among the Assamese community. Multiple FIRs were filed against Chatterjee across districts in Assam. Subsequently, a team of Assam Police landed in Kolkata to apprehend him but went back unsuccessful.Chatterjee had tendered a public apology through a video post on his social media following the outrage over his remarks in 2020. "In future, I will never make any social media post that may hurt the sentiments of the people of Assam," he had said.
• In 2021 the organisation crtiticesd Dr Vivek Bindra in his video Rise and Fall Of West Bengal. Many criticised him as he said bengalis are as "Racist" and "Argumentive" and was told to appologise.
• In 2022 its founder Garga Chaterjee was again arrested for making racist comment on Assam. The activist had allegedly made certain objectionable remarks against Swargadeo Sukapha, who founded Assam’s Ahom dynasty.he was released on transit bail on the condition that he would have to appear at the Kamrup Metro Chief Judicial Magistrate court in Guwahati

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