Last week at Radhanagar slum communal tension erupted around cow sacrifice for post funeral ceremony of Muslim deceased woman. A team of 'Tripura Yuktibad Bikash Mancha' visited the spot & interacted with locals . Family was attacked home ransacked dinner prepared destroyed by mobs . cleric present was bitten. Later F.I.R. lodged & persons arrested. As usual Muslim & Hindu groups swung in action. Mistrust spread among neighbors all on a sudden. so called progressive & secularist educated gentry conveniently turned a blind eye. This expose the fact that state is not immune from this sort of incidents. Political parties irrespective of their declared ideology use religion to woo voters some use majority religion some minority card. why to blame only hindutwa vadis, all are birds of same feathers. why to blame only parties in electoral business when the system dont consider religion as a private matter & mix it with political system & rule.

Representative of 'Tripura Yuktibad Bikash Mancha' delivering his speech in the seminar of State Science Forum on 'corporate aggression & hyped up of Hinduism' on 16th jan at press club.
TYBM said in the lecture that religion was started from the ignorance about the natural phenomenons. But when society developed in class divided society religion becomes a weapon of ruling class to run his system. In India Hindu /Muslim all rulers converted the religion of the people. Even in the British rule missionaries did the same. today what is going on, there is nothing new. All govts are taking role in favor of this system. Point is that, is our constitution are able to fight this situation or not. Answer is no. Because our constitution is not a truly secular constitution. It has changed the meaning of secularism. According to secularism religion is a private matter & state & religion will be separate. But our constitution declared to "equal treatment of all religions by the state".

'Tripura Yuktibad Bikash Mancha' was invited at special NSS camp of Nandan nagar higher secondary school on 18th January. seminar was conducted on 'Astrology a pseudoscience'. Near about 40 members of camp were present in the program. TYBM present a PPT on the subject. Narrators narrate how in ancient time some coincidental incidents reflects to the sky observers as a effect of heavenly bodies. It was very natural, because they didnt know the cause & effect relation. With the development of astronomy astrology already condemned. But individual fortune telling served the interest of ruling class. because it moves our eyes towards the sky instead of social system. That's why in this modern age govt allowed astrology in our higher education & gives trade licence to them. It really works for them.

 State level workshop organised by Tripura State Science & Technology council in colaboration with 'TRIPURA YUKTIBAD BIKASH MANCHA' on 'HOW TO COMBAT SUPERSTITION BLIND BELIEF AND SUPERNATURAL BELIEF'. In the sessions T.Y.B.M. delivered powerpoint presentations on 'Health related superstitions', 'Snake bite management', Astrology as psudoscience', 'Possession of god & ghost' & 'Witch hunting'. program ended with a demonstration of explaining miracles.

Published in DAINIK SAMBAD. Reaction of our state level Joint Forum of science & rationalist organisations 'TRIPURA BIGYAN O YUKTIBAD PRASAAR AIKYA MANCHA' on the message of Science & Tech Minister in the souvenir of astrologers association.