Dharna to demand for
punishing the guilty of December 6 and for an end to state organized communal
violence and terror
Venue: Jantar
Mantar, 11 am-1 pm
December 6, 2013
To mark 21 years
since the demolition of the Babri Masjid, Lok Raj Sangathan, together with
nearly various organisations held a protest dharna on 6 December 2013 at Jantar
Mantar in Delhi. The organisers and participants included the Communist Ghadar
Party of India, Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), Lok Raj Sangathan,
Association for Protection of Civil Rights, Purogami Mahila Sangathan, Hind Naujawan
Ekta Sabha and the Mazdoor Ekta Committee, Jamat Islam-e-hind, People's Front
of India, AIUTUC..
The site of the
dharna was decorated with banners that carried the following slogans –“Unite
to demand that the guilty are punished!”, “Carry forward the struggle for the
empowerment of the people and for deep going reforms for the renewal of
India!”, “Communalism and secularism are two aspects of the policy of the
rulers!”, “Both Congress Party and the BJP are responsible for the destruction
of the Babri Masjid, a historic monument!”, “An attack on one is an attack on
all!”, “The Indian State is communal and not the Indian people!”, “Those
responsible for the communal massacres in 1984, 1992-93, 2002, Odisha, Assam
and UP, should be severely punished!”, “Down with state organised terrorism!”,
“Unite against state organised communal violence”, “Communal violence is the
favorite weapon of the state to divide the people”, etc.
Representatives of
various organisations put forward their views.
Addressing the
meeting, the spokesmen of CGPI Com Prakash Rao said that the destruction
of the Babri Masjid showed once again, that organizing communal violence and
terror remains the preferred weapon of our rulers, to divide the toiling people
and divert them from the real issues facing them. In November 1984, the
assassination of Indira Gandhi was used by the Congress party and government to
unleash genocide against people of the Sikh community. Similarly, in 2002, people of the Muslim
community were the target of brutal communal violence organised by the BJP
government in Gujarat. Targeted communal
violence and massacres have been organized time and again, against the
Christian community in Orissa and other communities as well, the latest being
the bloody communal violence organized last month in Muzaffarnagar, UP.
Events over the
last 6 decades and more confirm time and again that the Indian state is
communal to the core, as are all the political parties representing the
interests of the ruling bourgeois class. Spokespersons of the Indian state
continue to divide the polity between "secular" and "communal"
and confuse people about the real source of communalism and communal violence.
President of Lok Raj Sangathan, S. Raghavan pointed out
that the demolition of the Babri Masjid exposed to our people their complete
powerlessness under the existing political system. People were outraged that
the two biggest parties in Parliament can get away with any heinous crime to
expand their vote banks and to divert and divide the people and we have no
power to prevent this. The police and state authorities fully facilitate these
crimes against the innocent people while the guilty, those who masterminded
these crimes not only go unpunished but are even rewarded with promotions or
even ministerial posts. This realisation among large numbers of people gave a
huge impetus to the movement for people’s empowerment. Our organisation was
founded as part of this movement, as the Committee for People’s Empowerment,
following the historic rally at Ferozeshah Kotla in February 1993. We issued a
call to all men and women of conscience, in which it was highlighted that as
long as the present political process continues, our people will be subjected
to more calamities like the events of December 1992. The challenge before all people of conscience
is to ensure that people should have political power in their hands, to set the
agenda of society in the interests of the vast majority and deal the harshest
punishment to all those who inflict such crimes on our people.
Leader of Mazdoor
Ekta Committee, Santosh Kumar spoke of how in the last 20 years, the political
representatives of those in power have been increasingly resorting to the
politics of communal violence and terror in order to achieve their political
aims. What the last 20 years have
confirmed is that the state and its organs – including the legal and judicial
systems, the various commissions of inquiry, and so on – cannot be relied on to
get justice for the victims of communal violence. The Indian state uses communalism and
secularism to split and divert the people.
The aim is to prevent the people from understanding the real source of
their exploitation and oppression under this system and from coming together to
fight it.
Others who
addressed the meeting included speakers from the Pratap Samal of Socialist
Unity Centre of India (Communist), Sucharita of Purogami Mahila Sangathan, Inam
Ur Rehman of Jamat Islam e ehind, Lokesh Kumar of Hind Naujawan Ekta Sabha,
Jasim Mohammad of Central Univercities Research Scholar Association, Syed
Akhlaq Ahmad of Association for Protection of Civil Rights and others. Participants
in the dharna raised slogans against state organised communal violence and
terror and expressed their resolve to carry forward the movement to punish the guilty.
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