00:07welcome back let's turn to get real india story today three incidents in just two months have
00:12put west bengal's christian community on the edge from an under construction church being vandalized
00:18to a burial dispute and a prayer gathering allegedly being disrupted the incidents have
00:24triggered a sharp divide and raised the question is west bengal also now hostage increasingly to
00:30communal tension where even a small minority like the christians feel targeted that's tonight's get
00:37real india ground report
00:48three incidents in two months have sparked anxiety in bengal's christian community
00:54on the 26th of august a christian gathering at the residence of gotham beira in mahishadal
01:00purba mediripur was allegedly disrupted by a mob who accused them of illegal conversions
01:15while the beira family has not filed a police complaint their neighbors defended disrupting
01:21the prayer
01:21the prayer
01:22the prayer
01:4012 days earlier tensions flared up at the raibati village in eastward one on the 14th of august
01:46of body was taken out from an allegedly disputed cemetery we just claim the land was not acquired
01:51for a cemetery a police investigation is underway
02:23the police law
02:25There is a lot of people who are living in the dream.
02:28They are living in the dream, and they will not get into the dream,
02:31and they will not know anything, but they will not be able to live.
02:36What does that mean?
02:38It is a school for a 5-year-old.
02:40But the first thing is, people never want to learn anything.
02:44The people who are living in their own life,
02:48they will not be able to learn anything.
02:48They will not be able to learn anything,
02:58In another incident on the 5th of July in Subhasgram, an under-construction church was vandalized.
03:04The attackers did not want a church in the Hindu-majority neighborhood.
03:08The police registered an FIR and arrested six suspects, who are now out on bail.
03:24They cannot build the church. The church will build this area, then all those Hindu people, they will convert it
03:31to Christian. They are saying like that.
03:34Church bodies have condemned the attacks.
03:37Christians and the church are completely against any conversion and phone conversion also.
03:45And if there is any churches or any small group doing so, we want to de-associate them.
03:55Hindu outfits, however, defend the disruptions.
03:58I will request the state administration, the police, to be very active and be vigilant.
04:05And they must immediately stop wherever these missionary activities are going on.
04:12Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar accused the previous TMC government of allowing conversions.
04:31Several other incidents have been reported across the state of West Bengal in last two to three months.
04:37Now, the Christian community have come together, urging the state government to safeguard their rights so that they can practice
04:44their religion peacefully and safely.
04:47With Video Journalist Leshan Lodh, Tapu Shangupto for India Today in Kolkata.
