Had West Bengal not been created, we would have suffered fate of Chinmoy Das of Bangladesh, says Suvendu Adhikari

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday (September 12, 2026) said that had West Bengal not been created as a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus, people of the State would have suffered the same of of Chinmoy Das of Bangladesh.

“I was thinking, had we not become part of India because of the struggles of Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Swami Pranavananda [founder of Bharat Sevashram Sangh], our fate would have been similar to Chinmoy Prabhu,” Mr. Adhikari said while inaugurating Ganesh Puja in Kolkata.

Mr. Adhikari also emphasised the plight of incarcerated Bangladeshi Hindu monk Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu, after photographs of him grieving beside his mother’s mortal remains surfaced in the media. “The tears of Chinmoy Prabhu had moved ‘sanatanis’ across the world,” the Chief Minister said.