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TMC MP Sagarika Ghose Raises Alarm Over Attacks on Christians in Bengal
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News18•11-10-2026, 20:15
TMC MP Sagarika Ghose Raises Alarm Over Attacks on Christians in Bengal
- •Trinamool Congress MP Sagarika Ghose expressed deep concern over the rising intimidation and attacks against the Christian community in West Bengal.
- •Ghose and a fact-finding team visited Kolkata and rural areas to document incidents, including threats to clergy and vandalism of a church.
- •The team received reports of a parish priest being threatened, nuns facing intimidation by a mob, and a Christian congregation being attacked in Krishnanagar.
- •Locals in Balichak reported the forcible exhumation and cremation of a Christian body, alongside complaints of denied access to water supplies and burial grounds.
- •The Archbishop of Kolkata also raised alarm over these incidents, calling them a tragic poisoning of Bengal's traditional pluralism by religious hatred.
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Sagarika Ghose cited threats to clergy by a self-styled VHP activist, a mob threat against nuns at Auxilium Convent, an attack on a church in Krishnanagar, and the forcible exhumation of a Christian body in Moninathpur village.
The fact-finding team comprised TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, Maria Fernandes, and Sirsanya Bandopadhyay who visited Kolkata and rural regions of West Bengal.
The Archbishop of Kolkata expressed alarm over the reported attacks on Christians and their negative implications for democracy in the region.
