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country’s non-communal and democratic values, said the council’s General Secretary Rana Dasgupta.

Its leaders said although seven decades already passed after the Indian subcontinent had been divided based on religion, problems relating to communalism are still getting worse and complicated in the region.

With Dr Neem Chandra Bhowmik in the chair, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Subrata Chowdhury and Kajal Debnath.