Protests Against Hate Speech!
Delhi: CPIML, AISA and AICCTU joined the Citizens protest at Uttarakhand Bhawan at Delhi demanding arrest of Yati Narsinghanad, Annapurna and all hate mongers of 'Dharm Sansad'.
Communist Party of India (Marxist- Leninist) Liberation General Secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya addressing the protest said that these far-right individuals and organisations backed by BJP is playing communal card to divide the nation. He said that the Uttarakhand hate speech event calling for genocide of Muslim community is similar to the Nazi Germany’s Final Solution. The democratic forces have to come together to ensure that such fascist forces are defeated in the upcoming elections. We need to carry forward our freedom movement’s vision of a secular democratic India, he added.
N Sai Balaji, President of All India Students Association (AISA) demanding the immediate arrest of all the Haridwar hate mongers, condemned the silence of the state government and police. He added that it’s a shame that people are openly giving calls for genocide and the state police is looking just as a mute spectator.
BJP-RSS behind Call for Frenzy and Genocide against Minority Community
Bihar: The nationwide outrage against the attempts to create communal frenzy through the call for genocide of minorities from the so-called Dharm Sansad held in Uttarakhand has reached Patna as well. CPIML and AIPF protested on the streets of Patna on 27 December against the hate speeches and call for genocide and strongly underlined the fact that Godse's campaign will not work in Gandhi's country. The people of the country will never tolerate this hate campaign. Along with Patna, protest marches were also organized in various Districts of Bihar including Begusarai, Ara, Bettiah and Dumraon.
Addressing the protest meeting organized near Buddha Smriti Park in Patna, All India Kisan Mahasabha General Secretary Rajaram Singh said that BJP and RSS are the root cause of such hate campaigns. It is surprising that no action has been taken so far against such anti-national forces, who are making a mockery of the Constitution and breaking the composite culture and unity of the country and openly calling for genocide.
Speakers at the protest meeting said that the people of the country are in favour of our composite culture and will give a befitting reply to those who are inciting communal venom in the name of religion. Today the entire India is demanding the immediate arrest of hard-line Hindutva leaders Yeti Narasimhanand and Prabodhanand who openly gave hate speeches against Muslims.
Activists associated with AIPF said that India is a secular and democratic country. We will never allow a conspiracy to divide the people in the name of religion succeed in this country.
Protest meetings were also held in Begusarai and Darbhanga as part of the state-wide protests. An effigy of PM Modi was burnt at Dumraon in Buxar.
CPIML Uttarakhand demanded Arrest of Hatemongers
CPIML Garhwal unit in Uttarakhand sent a memorandum to the DGP demanding immediate arrest of hatemongers of the so called ‘Dharm Sansad’ held in Haridwar. The memo sent by party’s Garhwal Secretary Indresh Maikhuri stated that the kind of things which were spoken from the dais in that program in the name of Dharm Sansad (Religious Parliament) held at Haridwar on 17, 18 and 19 December was nothing but hate speech and open incitement to violence. Speaker after speaker spoke only of collecting weapons, killing, and perpetrating violence, and even gave the call for people to become terrorists. If this kind of incitement to violence, call to take up arms, call to implicate people in false cases and also to kill people is given from open public platforms, it is clearly an attempt to vitiate the law and order situation in Uttarakhand, and nobody should be permitted to do this.
Indresh Maikhuri condemned the Uttarakhand police for initially registering a case against only one person, while almost all the speakers in that event openly incited violence and even talked of giving rewards to killers of people from another religion. He also sent video links of hate speeches in that event to the police authorities. The speakers were openly and continuously urging people to become terrorists, which is directly a conspiracy to break the nation. He demanded to arrest all persons for spreading hate between two communities, giving inflammatory speeches, incitement to murder, and conspiring to break the nation through incitement to terrorism under appropriate sections of the law.
Protest Held: CPIML organized a march in Lalkuan, Bindukhatta which culminated in a meeting at the Bhagat Singh Chowk. CPIML Uttarakhand Secretary Raja Bahuguna addressed the protesters and said that India is a democratic country and the government must allow it to run according to the Constitution and not according to any religious dictate. The people will never tolerate such a hate campaign on the eve of elections in 5 states. It is astounding that no stern action has been taken against those calling for genocide. This shows that the instigators and hate-speech makers enjoy the political protection of the Uttarakhand government. Therefore Chief Minister Dhami should take responsibility and resign from his post. CPIML leader Bahadur Singh Jangi said that the people of the country cherish our composite culture and will give a befitting reply to persons who try to break it through inflammatory speeches. Fanatic Hindutva leaders Yati Narsinghanand and Prabodhanand and others should be arrested without delay. India is a secular democratic country and the people will not allow such conspiracies to break the nation to succeed.
