Convention in Patna on Anti-CAA Movement and State Sponsored Riots in Delhi
CPIML and Insaf Manch organized a Convention on the movement against CAA-NPR-NRC, the situation in Delhi because of the state-sponsored violence, and the work to be done for the way forward. In addition to Left party representatives, the Convention was attended by representatives from RJD, HAM Secular and other parties as well as intellectuals and social activists. Representatives from Shaheen Baghs across the State also expressed their views after CPIML State Secretary Kunal read the keynote address.
Addressing the Convention, CPIML General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said that CAA-NRC-NPR is an integrated Sanghi project and we must sustain our struggle to see that it is revoked in totality and the Bihar government scraps all formats of NPR. He said that Nitish Kumar recently went to Delhi to campaign for the BJP but he did not say a single word on the Delhi violence. Now the poor and dalits in Bihar have been slapped with eviction notices. There has been an avalanche of scams. Till today Patna University has not got central university status. Unemployment is at its peak and has pushed Bihar back for the past 15 years. But Nitish Ji has dismissed the issues of the poor as ‘Bakwas’ (rubbish). We want to tell him the reality that it is he who has cheated the people and inflicted ‘Bakwas’ on Bihar.
The Convention was also addressed by RJD leader Uday Narayan Chaudhuri, Ravindra Nath Rai (CPI), Arun Kumar Mishra (CPM), DM Diwakar, Mohd Ghalib, AIPWA leader Meena Tiwari, Shahid Kamal, Prem Kumar Mani, SUCI (C) representatives and others. All the speakers stressed that our main job is to free Bihar from the clutches of Nitish-BJP. The Convention adopted several resolution as follows:
Resolutions passed at the Convention
- BJP attempts are continuously on to defame struggles for justice and rights and crush them, and to implement a fascist model in the entire country. We saw the horror of the state sponsored violence in Delhi where the police were fully complicit and communal. Police repression was also unleashed on the Young India March on 3 March. AISA leader Shiv Prakash Ranjan was beaten up while he was addressing the media. We condemn the brutality and communal character of the Delhi Police and demand the arrest of riot-inciters like Kapil Mishra who encouraged the politics of violence through their hate speeches. We demand that Amit Shah must take responsibility for the genocide and resign from his post as Home Minister. People from Bihar have also been killed in the Delhi violence but the Chief Minister of Bihar has not thought fit to say a single word about this. We condemn the silence of Nitish Kumar on this issue.
- On the one hand, the criminals who incited hate and violence in Delhi are being shielded. On the other hand, sedition charges are being slapped on those who are fighting to save the Constitution and democracy, from JNU student leaders to school children in Karnataka. We demand that the sedition charges on all protesters should be withdrawn and the British era sedition law should be scrapped.
- CAA-NRC-NPR is an integrated divisive RSS project. The need of the hour is to intensify the struggle to scrap the entire package through mobilization of all people including dalits and the poor. This Convention calls for an intensification of the struggle and pledges to keep up the struggle to demand full scrapping of NPR in any form in Bihar. We also call upon Panchayati Raj institutions and Gram Sabhas to pass resolutions against these draconian laws.
- Lakhs of dalit and poor in Bihar have been issued eviction notices in the name of the Jal-Jeevan Hariyali Scheme. We demand that the Bihar government should immediately withdraw this anti-poor Scheme, guarantee housing for all landless people, and stop evicting the poor without alternative arrangements.
- The recent Supreme Court verdict ending reservations in promotions is part of the BJP-RSS conspiracy to end reservations for dalits, backward sections and adivasis. We demand that a resolution should be passed from the Bihar Assembly to guarantee reservation.
- The Bihar government should take immediate steps to talk to striking teachers in Bihar and work in the direction of fulfilling their just demands. We demand that all cases slapped on the teachers during the protest should be withdrawn.
