Bengal is India’s Most Politically Violent State | @MrityunjayS7 - Raj Shamani #shorts

The speaker challenges the common perception that Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are India's most politically violent states, asserting that West Bengal actually surpasses them in electoral and political violence. He emphasizes this is not a close comparison, suggesting Bengal's political violence is significantly worse.

To illustrate his point, the speaker describes a harrowing incident from the 1990 municipal elections in Bengal. Approximately 15 days before the election, a mob of CPM (Communist Party of India - Marxist) cadres, not just one or two people but a larger group, intercepted a vehicle carrying three women — two from the Health Department and one from UNICEF — about 15 kilometers from the CPM's Bantala party office.

The mob surrounded the vehicle, abducted the women, and gang-raped them. When one of the women resisted, she was killed. The driver, who also resisted, was stabbed to death. The police later attempted to justify the mob's actions by claiming that the CPM cadres believed the women were child traffickers who had come to steal children. Further adding to the outrage, then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu reportedly responded to the incident with the dismissive statement that 'such things keep happening,' reflecting a deeply troubling attitude toward politically motivated violence in the state.