PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2002 ID-38256
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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA.
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RISE AGAINST COMMUNAL VIOLENCE ! 05.03.2002 Friends, JOIN THE MARCH FOR NATIONAL UNITY!! .
The events which have unfolded over the past few days in Gujarat have evoked the memories of not onlythe communal riots of 1992 or 1984 but also the widespread mayhem and massacres during the days of thePartition. That this happening in our country 54 years after Independence aptly demonstrates what has gone.
seriously wrong in our post-colonial nation building project..
The governments both at Gujarat as well as at the Centre are not only culpable of criminal negligence but.
also of actual connivance. The people are still being kept in the dark about the culprits of the Godhra killings.
with contradictory claims being made by BJP leaders at various levels, at times suggesting an lSI hand and.
.
the Modi government (backed by the Home Minister) to expand the scope of the judicial inquiry into the .
sometimes blaming some corporators from the Congress. What is even more reprehensible is the refusal of.
Godhra incident to include the following communal carnage in Ahmedabad and other places. This brazen.
.
attempt to shield the RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal who played havoc with the lives and properties of the Muslim.
minority in Gujarat further exposes the communal and fascistic character of the BJP..
The deliberate inaction of the Gujarat Police and the complicity of the State Administration already stands.
different parts of Gujarat continue to pour in with the death toll rising by the day. Even judges and senior exposed, thanks to the role played by sections of the print and electronic media. Reports of violence from.
police officials belonging to the minority community had to fend for themselves in the face of the fury of the.
saffron fanatics (TO/, 5.3.2002). In the backdrop of this complete collapse of law and order in the State, the.
Modi government should be summarily dismissed and the Army be deployed in all the affected areas..
It is also alarming that the Vajpayee government is continuing negotiations with the VHP leadership. In this.
worst display of appeasement of the communal and extremist elements, the Prime Minister is reportedly.
being persuaded to hand over at least part of the acquired land in Ayodhya. .
.
Apart from being patently.
illegal, any decision in that direction by the government has the potential of causing an explosion of.
communal strife across the length and breadth of the country. The Prime Minister by continuing dialogue.
with the VHP on these lines, even in the aftermath of the Gujarat events, is also ruining India's image as a.
secular and democratic country before the international community. .
.
'ramsevaks' at Ayodhya should be prevented. .
These dangerous talks should stop immediately. In order to uphold the Constitution, the congregation of the.
The VHP is not articulating a democratic or negotiable.
demand; it is directly challenging the rule of law by posing it against what they call as 'faith'. How irrational.
and ridiculous that 'faith' can be, is best exemplified by Sant Paramhans' remarks that even if Lord Ram.
were to tell him that the disputed site was not his birthplace, he would not budge (Hindu, 5.3.2002). These.
.
irrational, obscurantist and fundamentalist elements masquerading as religious leaders are holding the.
entire nation to ransom in the name of a temple and putting our unity and integrity at peril. The VHP should.
be banned and its leaders arrested for violating the law of the land..
In view of the dangerous possibility of the Vajpayee government relenting under pressure from the VHP and.
the need to prevent it as well as to protest against the orgy of violence in Gujarat, the Left parties have.
called for a March to the Parliament. SFI appeals to all progressive, democratic and secular students to join in this March Against Communal Violence and to Uphold National Unity. .
.
WHEN COMMUNALISM IS THE ENEMY, IT IS A CRIME NOT TO FIGHT !.
Sd/.
Sadre Alam .
.
Sd/-.
President lndranil ChowdhurySecretary.
JOIN A MARCH TO PARLIAMENT AGAINST.
ATROCITIES IN GUJARAT .
.
BUS LEAVES FROM GANGA DHABA.
AT 10.00 A.M. ON 6TH MARCH, 2002 (Wednesday) .
.
.
PaRCha - JNU - AISF-SFI - 2002 ID-38256
.
AI .1 lNOI A .
C"~yTY'......... "Y~,... --.
-.
STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA.
.
RISE AGAINST COMMUNAL VIOLENCE ! 05.03.2002 Friends, JOIN THE MARCH FOR NATIONAL UNITY!! .
The events which have unfolded over the past few days in Gujarat have evoked the memories of not onlythe communal riots of 1992 or 1984 but also the widespread mayhem and massacres during the days of thePartition. That this happening in our country 54 years after Independence aptly demonstrates what has gone.
seriously wrong in our post-colonial nation building project..
The governments both at Gujarat as well as at the Centre are not only culpable of criminal negligence but.
also of actual connivance. The people are still being kept in the dark about the culprits of the Godhra killings.
with contradictory claims being made by BJP leaders at various levels, at times suggesting an lSI hand and.
.
the Modi government (backed by the Home Minister) to expand the scope of the judicial inquiry into the .
sometimes blaming some corporators from the Congress. What is even more reprehensible is the refusal of.
Godhra incident to include the following communal carnage in Ahmedabad and other places. This brazen.
.
attempt to shield the RSS-VHP-Bajrang Dal who played havoc with the lives and properties of the Muslim.
minority in Gujarat further exposes the communal and fascistic character of the BJP..
The deliberate inaction of the Gujarat Police and the complicity of the State Administration already stands.
different parts of Gujarat continue to pour in with the death toll rising by the day. Even judges and senior exposed, thanks to the role played by sections of the print and electronic media. Reports of violence from.
police officials belonging to the minority community had to fend for themselves in the face of the fury of the.
saffron fanatics (TO/, 5.3.2002). In the backdrop of this complete collapse of law and order in the State, the.
Modi government should be summarily dismissed and the Army be deployed in all the affected areas..
It is also alarming that the Vajpayee government is continuing negotiations with the VHP leadership. In this.
worst display of appeasement of the communal and extremist elements, the Prime Minister is reportedly.
being persuaded to hand over at least part of the acquired land in Ayodhya. .
.
Apart from being patently.
illegal, any decision in that direction by the government has the potential of causing an explosion of.
communal strife across the length and breadth of the country. The Prime Minister by continuing dialogue.
with the VHP on these lines, even in the aftermath of the Gujarat events, is also ruining India's image as a.
secular and democratic country before the international community. .
.
'ramsevaks' at Ayodhya should be prevented. .
These dangerous talks should stop immediately. In order to uphold the Constitution, the congregation of the.
The VHP is not articulating a democratic or negotiable.
demand; it is directly challenging the rule of law by posing it against what they call as 'faith'. How irrational.
and ridiculous that 'faith' can be, is best exemplified by Sant Paramhans' remarks that even if Lord Ram.
were to tell him that the disputed site was not his birthplace, he would not budge (Hindu, 5.3.2002). These.
.
irrational, obscurantist and fundamentalist elements masquerading as religious leaders are holding the.
entire nation to ransom in the name of a temple and putting our unity and integrity at peril. The VHP should.
be banned and its leaders arrested for violating the law of the land..
In view of the dangerous possibility of the Vajpayee government relenting under pressure from the VHP and.
the need to prevent it as well as to protest against the orgy of violence in Gujarat, the Left parties have.
called for a March to the Parliament. SFI appeals to all progressive, democratic and secular students to join in this March Against Communal Violence and to Uphold National Unity. .
.
WHEN COMMUNALISM IS THE ENEMY, IT IS A CRIME NOT TO FIGHT !.
Sd/.
Sadre Alam .
.
Sd/-.
President lndranil ChowdhurySecretary.
JOIN A MARCH TO PARLIAMENT AGAINST.
ATROCITIES IN GUJARAT .
.
BUS LEAVES FROM GANGA DHABA.
AT 10.00 A.M. ON 6TH MARCH, 2002 (Wednesday) .
.
.