Bijon Setu
{{Short description|Bridge in Kolkata}}
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Bijon Setu is a bridge situated above Ballygunge Junction railway station connects EM Bypass through Kasba with Gariahat.{{Cite web|last1=Chakraborti|first1=Suman|date=13 May 2020|first2=Dwaipayan|last2=Ghosh|title=Kolkata: Bijon Setu to remain shut from May 14–18|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/bijon-setu-to-remain-shut-from-may-14-18/articleshow/75704677.cms|access-date=2021-08-13|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=13 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813074842/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/bijon-setu-to-remain-shut-from-may-14-18/articleshow/75704677.cms|url-status=live}}
History
The bridge is named after a Bengali engineer Bijon Basu. 35 year old Basu was an executive engineer of then Calcutta Improvement Trust.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_FVAAAAMAAJ&q=Bijon+Basu+engineer|title=The Indian Concrete Journal|date=1978|publisher=Cement Marketing Company of India|language=en}} On 2 August 1974, while he was returning home from Santoshpur to Sealdah, a gang of robbers got on the train and looted passengers. Basu protested but the robbers stabbed him and threw him out from the running train beside Ballygunge railway station.{{Cite web|title=Mall-ed landmark goes shopping|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/mall-ed-landmark-goes-shopping/cid/1009759|access-date=2021-08-13|website=www.telegraphindia.com|archive-date=13 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813062549/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/mall-ed-landmark-goes-shopping/cid/1009759|url-status=live}}{{Cite book|last=Ghosh|first=Sitansu Sekhar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u43tAAAAMAAJ&q=Bijon+Setu++Bijon+Basu|title=Railways in India--a Legend: Origin & Development (1830-1980)|date=2002|publisher=Jogemaya Prokashani|language=en}} The bridge was established in 1978.{{Cite web|title=বিজন সেতু নামের পিছনে একটা বীভৎস খুন|url=https://bengali.indianexpress.com/feature/bijon-setu-murder-kolkata-sealdah-rpf-242006/|access-date=2021-08-13|website=Indian Express Bangla|language=bn-IN|archive-date=13 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813065044/https://bengali.indianexpress.com/feature/bijon-setu-murder-kolkata-sealdah-rpf-242006/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Ei Samay Gold {{!}} বাঙ্গালী রেডিও|url=https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/eisamaygold/people/murder-case-of-bijon-setu/story/79756860.cms|access-date=2021-08-13|website=eisamay.indiatimes.com|archive-date=13 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813065355/https://eisamay.indiatimes.com/eisamaygold/people/murder-case-of-bijon-setu/story/79756860.cms|url-status=live}}
1982 massacre
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16 monks and one nun of a Hindu organization Ananda Marga religious sect were lynched and burnt alive near Bijon Setu in the morning of 30 April 1982.{{Cite web|date=24 September 2019|first=Debasish|last=Konar|title=1982 Margi killings: Panel submits report|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/1982-margi-killings-panel-submits-report/articleshow/71267291.cms|access-date=2021-08-13|website=The Times of India|language=en|archive-date=13 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813063310/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/1982-margi-killings-panel-submits-report/articleshow/71267291.cms|url-status=live}} This incident was called as Bijon Setu massacre.{{Cite web|date=2015-06-05|title=Why corpses of a 1982 killing are stirring again|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-corpses-of-a-1982-killing-are-stirring-again/|access-date=2021-08-13|website=The Indian Express|language=en|archive-date=13 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210613175753/https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/why-corpses-of-a-1982-killing-are-stirring-again/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|date=2010-03-12|title=Basu Govt still suppressing facts on Margi massacre|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970502/12250433.html|access-date=2021-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312070007/http://www.indianexpress.com/res/web/pIe/ie/daily/19970502/12250433.html|archive-date=2010-03-12}}
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Category:Bridges completed in 1978