16-29 February 2020 The Asian Independent

6 16-02-2020 to 29-02-2020 ASIA
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People of Delhi must defeat those pushing
‘PAKISTANI’ agenda on the people
The filth is growing day by day and
the desperation on the faces when the
entire cabinet and a rabble rousing chief
minister from neighboring state is campaigning.
The focus is on Pakistan and
‘terrorism’ and not the basic amenities
of the people. It is deeply shocking the
way BJP leadership has turned the
Delhi elections into an India Pakistan
battle. BJP will have to introspect in
longer run whether it want to remain a
political party or a rabble rousing militia
pushing one Indian against the other.
Why is the party not responding to the
issues of the people of Delhi. Why is it
important for the party to term every
opposition leader as anti national ?
Does it has any leader who participated
in the freedom movement ? It does not
have anybody yet it want to hijack the
legacy of the freedom movement where
all Indians irrespective of their caste
and religious identity joined hand to
compel the British out of this country.
Delhi’s elections have become
important now. I never thought that a
small state like Delhi will be so important
for the leadership that they are
ready to vitiate the atmosphere of the
Delhi which has never been that bad
since 1984 when the Congress goons
along with the Sanghi mindset and
goons unleashed violence on innocent
Sikhs and carried out the pogrom of
them in Delhi. We never saw that hatred
since then.
Why is this environment of hatred
being created here. The Ministers are
the custodian of our constitution and
they need to protect it but instead they
are violating and speaking in the most
vulgar language. The pathetic helplessness
of Election Commission does not
bode well for our healthy democracy.
The Election Commission should not
only bar these Ministers or leaders permanently
from the election campaign
but should file FIR with an intent that
any future repetition might force the
Commission to even request the loss of
their membership from Parliament or
Assemblies.
A peaceful protest in Shaheen Bagh
and many other places have now been
vilified by the BJP. Why is that happening.
Why you bothering about it. Do
people have no right to protest. Does
anybody in the government care why
these women, with children , a large
number of those, with infants too, are
sitting from last fifty days. Why is this
happening that women who rarely venture
out in night or daily, out of their
home, are here, shouting slogans for
justice. And the answer is clear that
never in post independent India, the
Muslims have felt that much insecure
and threatened as they are feeling today
and the government and the BJP in particular
seem to enjoy this insecurity.
Now, BJP might feel and understand
that the fear of the people has gone and
they are ready to fight till get justice.
When all avenues of peaceful protests
are shut, people will do at the places
nearby their homes.
Shaheen Bagh have redefined our
political protests. I want to
salute these bold women who
have taught all of us so many
things including their faith in
democracy and India’s secular
ethos. Two youngsters who are openly
Hindutva inspired and caught up firing
at Jamia and Shaheen Bagh in the last
two days were spared by people. In any
Sanghi meeting, such youngsters of the
opposite side would have been lynched
or police would have done so but the
best side of this is the complete show of
non violent protest of Shaheen Bagh
women is a shining example. It will be
the among the most outstanding form of
protests, if ever we write the history of
protest movements in India. It has given
voice, ideas and provided hope to all of
us. Today, Shaheen Bagh complete 50
days of this historical protest and we
see the Hindutva propaganda machinery
in full swing terming it anti national
and asking the people of Delhi to
mobilise against it. Attempt are being
made to intimidate people and polarise
the Delhi voters.
We have seen how the present leadership
of the BJP came to from all the
protests in the name of Ram Mandir.
Disruptions of normal life, damage to
public property, stones at police as well
as Muslim localities were ‘normal’
characteristics of Hindutva protests
apart from chanting of deliberate
provocative slogans but none of them
By Vidya Bhushan Rawat
social and human rights activist
ever got a notice for damaging public
property.The same leaders today speak
up language that we should not protests
as it create ‘disturbance’ to the common
people. Well, in 1990, we had a prime
minister who our Savarna media forget
and his name was V P Singh. He had
the courage to speak up things and act.
He fulfilled his promise to give the
OBCs their due in jobs by accepting the
recommendations of Mandal
Commission.which sought 27% reservation
for them. BJP started its Ram
Mandir movement afterwards and
Advani’s infamous Somnath Ayodhya
yatra began which left a trail of blood
of innocents in every place it traveled.
Finally, the yatra had to be stopped at
Samastipur, in Bihar on October 23rd,
1990 as the Prime Minister ordered
Bihar Chief minister Lalu Yadav to not
allow the yatra beyond Bihar as it was
bound to disturb peace in the state of
Uttar Pradesh.
The Hindu media and the brahmanical
reporters abused V P Singh despite
the fact that he was protecting the
Constitution of India. When the savarna
children were forced
to commit suicide by
the C grade journalism
of Arun Shourie,
that Arnab now follow
on TV, V P Singh
spoke about the pain
and talk to them. He
spoke about the dangers
of the theocratic state and how BJP
want to create it before his resignation.
That time, many felt that he was wrong
but if any one want to know the politics
of BJP, they should read those lectures
and talks of V P Singh but he was the
‘worst’ human being for this manuwadi
media. That is how they build narrative
and distort history.
Narendra Modi has not spoken a
word about Rohit Vemula’s death,
about student protests, about CAA,
about so many things that haunted us in
the last five years. Instead, his juniors
as well as seniors were building conspiracy
‘theories’ to discredit all these
movements and yet our media did not
have the capacity to ask question to
him. The man who hate to speak to
media yet media love him so much.
It is time for prime minister
Narendra Modi to speak up to the
young boys picking up guns. Invoking
Gandhi’s name for cleanliness may be
good but please do speak to your cadres
to come out of hatred. Hate will take
India nowhere. Let us be very clear,
India’s image has already damaged in
the world and if we are trying to evade
these questions through ‘artificial intelligence’
then we will be disappointed as
the world has started reacting. BJP
leaders should focus on governance and
not threaten people for their differing
views. Pushing people against people
will not resolve any issues. Now, our
youth understand what is needed for a
stronger India. It is the strength of us
all, its diverse cultural value system, its
Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians,
Buddhists, Adivasis, Dalits, non believers,
atheists, humanists. India has
chronic poverty, we still have huge gender
disparity. Caste violence against
Dalits is the order of the day.
Untouchability persists, Education system
is in the mess. Land Reforms never
happened. Forest Rights not being
granted to Adivasis. Our hospitals dont
have enough infrastructure, doctors.
Poor have an issue. Hunger remain in
many pockets. Let us focus on these
issues to make us stronger. We will only
be stronger if we respect each other,
live in complete harmony, enjoy our
diversity and treat all citizen equal as
our Constitution define. We cant have
different categories of citizens.
Let the Delhi Elections focus on
people’s issues like education, health,
housing, water , electricity and ofcourse
our living togetherness as citizen of
India. Let Delhi remain the vibrant hub
of multiculturalism that reflect mini
India where every one irrespective of
their faith, language, region or identity
can thrive and progress. We hope people
of Delhi will vote on these lines and
defeat the forces who dont want to
speak on the agenda of Delhi but on the
agenda of Pakistan.
Vidya Bhushan Rawat is a social
and human rights activist. He blogs
at www.manukhsi.blogspot.com
twitter @freetohumanity
Email: vbrawat@gmail.com