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aisa HC Ayodhya Verdict: Legitimising `Faith' Over Evidence, Reason and Jus-.
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Yesterday the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High politically coloured statements on theological issues? The.
Court delivered the much-awaited verdict on the Ram Janam- Allahabad HC has thus substantially overstepped its role, with.
bhoomi-Babri Masjid issue. In what has been correctly referred dangerous implications..
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to by constitutional experts as `panchayati justice' dictated by Dangerous Precedence.
political compulsions rather than by facts or legal consider-.
ations, the court entirely dismissed the petition of the Sunni India has a complex history: there are records of Hindu.
Waqf Board. Instead, the court shockingly held that as per the temples coming up after the demolition of Buddhist monasteries,.
`beliefs' of Hindus, the property under question is indeed the of mosques being built after the demolition of temples and vice.
birth place of `Ram Lalla Virajman'. Further, according to the versa. These are incidents of the past, which happened when.
HC, a Ram temple previously existed at the disputed site, which India was not a declared secular, democratic republic (unlike.
was demolished to construct the Babri Masjid - and therefore, the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid). Now, in modern India,.
the Hindus can claim rights over the property. After having thus is the Allahabad HC verdict (which gives credence to purported.
dismissed the Muslims' legal claim over the property, the court `beliefs' of some alleged and unproven wrongs committed in.
has then proceeded to nevertheless allocate one-third of the disputed the ancient and unrecorded past) the right way of dealing with.
property to the Sunni Waqf Board. our history? Such precedence will lead to complete chaos in.
the country and a complete destruction of our secular polity..
`Faith' Prevailed Over Facts and Evidence What the court has essentially done is that it has paved the way.
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This bizarre verdict is indeed historic - for probably the for more Babri Masjids to happen. It has in a sense legalized,.
first time, a court of law has dealt with what is essentially justified and strengthened the very ideological basis of `belief'.
a dispute over land, property and ownership on the basis which led to several patently illegal acts such as the installation.
of purported `faith'. And the Sangh Parivar is already gloating of Ram idols within the Babri Masjid premises and the demolition.
over this legal `stamp of approval' on a matter of `faith'. of the mosque in 1992..
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So, what is the basis of the HC judgment? How do the Hindu By allowing `faith' and `belief' to guide a legal verdict in.
groups have claim to 2/3rd of the land (1/3rd to the representa- the court of law, the Allahabad HC has set an extremely dan-.
tives of `Ram Lalla Virajman' and 1/3rd to the Nirmohi Akhada)? gerous precedent. Now, what can stop someone from arguing.
The three judges in this case have different opinions. Two of in court (quoting the Ayodhya verdict as a precedent) that it is.
the judges have concluded that a Ram temple indeed existed the `belief' of Hindus that people of the same gotra are brothers.
at the site and was subsequently demolished for constructing and sisters and therefore should not be allowed to marry? Or.
the mosque. It is to be noted that there is NO established, con- that it is the `belief' since times immemorial that widows should.
clusive historical and archeological basis for coming to such a commit sati and should be revered for it?.
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sweeping decision. The much touted ASI report (prepared during The Future Challenge of Defending Secularism.
Vajpayee's NDA regime) which claims that there was `some.
large Hindu structure' existing at the site has been questioned Some commentators have applauded the HC's attempts at.
by several eminent historians. Moreover, even the spurious ASI `reconciliation' - since both the Hindus as well as Muslims have.
report does not pretend that demolition of a temple had indeed been given some land (it is another matter that the RSS and the.
taken place, or that Lord Ram was born at the site! The basis of BJP have already started throwing hints that the Muslims should.
the verdict is thus `faith' and `belief' (of the Sangh Parivar and its give up their land for the construction of a grand Ram Temple.
advocates), not facts and evidence. A look at the some of the in the spirit of harmony and `amity'!). The fact of the matter is.
conclusions the judges raises extremely disturbing questions that any real `reconciliation' can only happen on the solid.
for our secular and democratic polity: basis of justice and truth. The HC verdict not just operates.
on `faith' and denies justice, it also dangerously ratifies the.
"This court is of the view that place of birth, that is Ram very ideological basis of `faith' which led to the demolition.
Janmabhumi, is a juristic person. The deity also attained of the Babri Masjid. Thus, shockingly, according to the verdict,.
divinity like Agni, Vayu, Kedarnath. Asthan is personified Hindu `beliefs' prove that the 500-year old Masjid was an `illegal'.
as the spirit of divine worshipped as the birthplace of Ram structure and that the Muslims had no business praying there!.
Lala or Lord Ram as a child." (Justice D V Sharma) And this is precisely why the HC verdict cannot be termed.
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"It is declared that the .... disputed structure being the as a genuine step for `reconciliation'..
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deity of Bhagwan Ram Janamsthan .. as per the faith and The Ayodhya case is a true test of our secular and demo-.
belief of the Hindus, belongs to the plaintiffs [Hindus]" cratic credentials. The system has till now miserably failed this.
(Justice Sudhir Agarwal) test - whether it is the judiciary or the executive (the surrepti-.
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"The disputed building [Babri Masjid] ... was built against tious placing of the idols in the mosque, the opening of locks.
the tenets of Islam. Thus, it cannot have the character of of the mosque for worship by Hindus and the 1992 demolition.
a mosque" (Justice D V Sharma) for instance). Predictably the matter is now going to be placed.
before the Supreme Court. If at all we want to safeguard any.
In a secular democratic state, all arms of the state have to notions of being a modern, democratic state, the Supreme.
respect every citizen's religious faiths and beliefs. However, the Court will have to correct the dangerous precedent set by.
state should not and in fact cannot arbitrate disputes on the the Allahabad High Court..
basis of the `faiths' and `beliefs' of any community - this is.
precisely the difference between a secular democratic state The Sangh brigade has already started making celebra-.
and a theocratic, fascist state. tory noises, and secular progressive forces in the country.
will have to remain alert to thwart the Sangh's attempt to.
Moreover, on what basis can the three judges determine use the court verdict to fuel its long-standing campaign.
what constitutes `Hindu' beliefs and faiths? Or what is against the against secularism and democracy..
`basic tenets of Islam'? Can any court accept the Sangh Parivar.
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and its advocates as the authentic representatives of `Hindu.
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beliSehfse'?pIhsailtikthaeSjhoebkohfaar,cPoruerstidoef nlat,wAtIoSApa, sJNs Usweeping and Sucheta, Gen. Secy., AISA, JNU.
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Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
‘अयोध्या की वह स्याह रात’ पुस्तक का हुआ विमोचन
लखनऊ, 30-01-2015। देश के दो प्रतिष्ठित पत्रकारों सुश्री कृष्णा झा और
श्री धीरेंद्र कुमार झा द्वारा लिखित पुस्तक ‘अयोध्या की वह स्याह रात’
का विमोचन आज यहां उत्तर प्रदेश प्रेस क्लब के सभागार में न्यायमूर्ति
हैदर अब्बास रजा द्वारा किया गया। यह पुस्तक अयोध्या में 22-23दिसंबर
1949 की रात बाबरी मस्जिद में राम लला के प्रकट होना का वस्तुनिष्ठ सच
बयां करती है। घटना के मिथकीकरण की कोशिशों और उसकी आड़ में देश की
धर्मनिरपेक्ष चरित्र को कलंकित कर राजनीतिक सत्ता हथियाने की हिन्दू
महासभा की साजिशों का तथ्य आधारित भंडाफोड़ करती है।
किताब विमोचन समारोह की अध्यक्षता लखनऊ के वरिष्ठ बुद्धिजीवी और
संस्कृतिकर्मी आबिद सुहैल ने की। इस अवसर पर अन्य लोगों के अलावा पुस्तक
के दोनों लेखक, अनुवादक श्री अनिल राजिमवाला, प्रकाशक श्री एलके खन्ना और
अनेक स्थानीय लेखक, पत्रकार, बुद्धिजीवी और संस्कृतिकर्मी उपस्थित थे।
Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
19. Coronation of Rama to the throne of Ayodhya after returning from 14 years of exile in the forest
Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
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The sh· Ayodhya-having a Ram Temple ( between the mili with both legal ar High Court in Ma the secular value land claimed to b, the "status quo" ~ obstacle in the brE of a temple. .
Over the I well coordinated ei on October 171h. T companies of cent1 trains and stoppin£ violence and troublt armed with a potem unambiguo~s :the ~ the disputed site, wl .
The VHP h< Togadia, has even 'A from going to Ayodh) Sangh Parivas and E government not to st their usankalp" progrc had acted in 1992) wi BJP has a desperate~ Party's political stock I ment that the BJP, as 1 the simple season that polity, but its main ac~ coalition government a .
On October 141 the VHP to postpone it~ Prime Minister should st programmelacks public~ the role of some 'sadhu~ them about their safety. .
Mr. Mulayam Sin over one lakh VHP activi~ gate five kilometers awa~ committed on anyone. Bu was arrested today for me .
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povert}, exploitation. and plight are one. Their culture of truth and mutual cooperation is one. The labels of religion and caste are minor. For thousands of ; ears they have been exploited not by the poor of other religions but by the elite controlling resources, markets and power, comprising all religious shades. They must assert their inherent unity and resist fake issues raised to divide them. .
The second issue is to bring people-centric education and economy at the center stage of our polity. The parliament has passed the bill making education compulsory upto the age of 14. However, no additional budget has been allocated that could bring seventy percent children, who dror out from schools before 8th grade, back into the fold of education. In fact the share of education in this year's federal budget, as percent of GDP, is less than it was two years ago. Moreover, the minimum goal of education must be recognized as formal education for every child upto 8th grade and two years of technical training so that he/ shl! can become self reliant. This calls for a budget allocation of 3.5% of GOP for this purpose, hence the total, budget of education should be raised from present 3.?% to 7% of GOP as is the case with most countries of the world. The artisans engaged in traditional trades must be exposed to advanced techniques. The children having expertise in ancestral crafts of the family should get priority in admissions to .
technical colleges of related trades. The brilliant students from rural areas should get admission to professional colleges. The tuition for any program of study should not exceed per capita GDP. .
The focus of economy must return on self reliance and full time employment to our entire workforce. Capital formation in villages, through water management, composting, plantation of economic trees, food processing, small-scale industry and mining must get top priority. This shall bring employment to landless laborers who are un.employed for half the time in a year. The industries or enterprises that provide employment to larger number of people should get the priority. Self-reliance at the national level implies that all the essential goods must .
be produced in the country, preferably by small machines. Multinationals must be. kept out of such areas as salt. fishing, water. drinks, electricity etc. .
The steadfastness in these efforts requires self-inquiry. We observe our own minds and see how it creates images. When we see people through images, of ca:::.te, religion, nationality. status and so on, we do not see their agon; and jo;' and remain insensitive. We must also observe how the mind raises undesirable thoughts and gets restless to free irsel f from these thoughts. The moment we see our restlessness and observe the thought process, undesirable thoughts start subsiding. Sensitivitj is born and we start feeling tht! agony of others and questioning at whose cost our own comforts arc sustained. Gradually we see p\!ople's exploitation and oppression. having bigger rcaliLation of rruth. Then .
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The Ayodhya Verdict: Dipankar Bhattacharya A Blow to the Spirit of Modern India Gen. Secy. CPIML .
On the eve of the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya, we had said the verdict would be a test case for Indias secularism, democracy and justice. Now, following a close look at the shocking verdict, we must say it has failed this test on every count. 30 September, 2010 will now be bracketed with 6 December, 1992. Eighteen years after the dastardly physical demolition of the Babri Masjid, we have now seen its judicial demolition, a verdict that flies in the face of the basic principles of justice and rule of law, and challenges the fundamental spirit of a secular, democratic modern India. .
The High Court was supposed to decide on the title suit regarding the disputed site. It is well known that the BJP and its Sangh siblings were all along wary of the court deciding on this case on the plea that the whole issue concerned faith and there could be no adjudication over faith. It was clear to them that they had no legal basis for their claim and hence they chose the way of cheating the country. They assured everybody that the law of the land would be honoured, and then betrayed their own words to demolish the mosque through a communal-fascistic mobilisation in broad daylight. .
Today, the Sangh is jubilant that the High Court has turned faith into law. All the three judges have accepted the fact that the idols of Ram, Sita and Bharat were smuggled in from outside on the intervening night of 22-23 December, 1949. Yet the judges have ruled by 2-1 majority that the disputed structure was not a mosque because it was apparently constructed by demolishing a Hindu religious structure and hence according to the tenets of Islam, it could not have the sanctity of a mosque! The other judge has of course differed on both counts .
but the majority view prevailed. .
The verdict is based heavily on two factors the so-called archaeological evidence marshalled by the ASI in its 2003 report that there was a Hindu temple on the site before the mosque was built, and the faith held by many Hindus that the disputed area is the birthplace of Lord Ram. The ASI report has been widely questioned and rejected by a whole range of historians and archaeologists, and can at best be treated as a piece of speculative conjecture based on dubious evidence and questionable interpretation. The other aspect, faith, is just that faith, which can by no means be treated as an evidence to decide a title suit. .
By treating Ram as a juristic entity (albeit a minor) represented by his self-appointed guardian in a title suit, the Allahabad High Court has set up a dangerous precedent of mixing blind faith and prejudice, masquerading as religion, with jurisprudence. It should be noted that the youngest litigant in this case, Ram Lalla Virajman, which has been awarded one-third of the disputed site including the all important central dome, claimed by the Sangh brigade as the exact birthplace of Lord Ram, was set up in 1989 by none other than a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Shri Deoki Nandan Agarwal, who played a key role in making a legal case out of the Mandir campaign of the Sangh brigade. .
Having conceded the Ramjanambhoomi claim on thoroughly questionable grounds, the judges sought to give the whole thing the appearance of a reconciliatory measure whereby the disputed land would be apportioned into three equal parts with one part going to the waqf board. Reconciliation can only be attempted and achieved on the basis of truth and justice. In this case, both truth (at least recorded historical truth) and justice have been sacrificed at the altar of this phoney reconciliation formula and hence it is a compound travesty of all three. Can there ever be a dignified compromise by compromising truth and justice? .
After Gujarat genocide, the BJP had been steadily losing ground in most parts of the country. Ever since its debacle in the 2009 Lok Sabha election its second successive defeat in five years, the party seemed virtually clueless as to how to arrest its continuing state of demoralisation and desperation. Now the Allahabad High Court verdict has breathed some fresh life into the demoralised and desperate saffron camp. Advani has already described the verdict as heralding a new chapter in the countrys history of national integration. In all likelihood, an emboldened BJP will now try and reopen the whole gamut of its suspended agenda and refuel its Hindutva campaign. .
The judicial trajectory of the case will now reach the Supreme Court. It remains to be seen if and how far the Supreme Court can salvage the spirit of law and justice and heal the post-Ayodhya wound on the body polity and the composite culture of the country that has only been rendered deeper and more acute by the Allahabad High Court verdict. Every effort must be made to make sure that the glorious tradition of Indias composite culture and the secular democratic vision of modern India prevail over the Sangh brigades conspiracy to redefine India on retrograde majoritarian lines. If the possibility of an out-of-court settlement has to be explored even at this stage, it must not be at the cost of the basic principle of reason and justice. .
India must and shall move on, and precisely for this purpose the forces of unreason and obscurantism need to be pushed back. There can be no compromise with the crude champions of the might is right argument who are desperate to silence the voices of reason and .
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progress by all means.(from ML Update Editorial 5-12 Oct) .
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STUDENTS' FEDERATION OF INDIA ALL INDIA STUDENTS' FEDERATION 14.10.03 .
DEFEAT THE SANGH GIROH's CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY IN AYODHYAI I · e.
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h he ·IS by threatemng communa nots across th .
october 17th. There is no doubt that the only place for Togadia and his followers, who have repeatedly flaunted theirFriends,Praveen Togadla has once again shown himself for the t ug .
country If the VHP Is not allowed to go ahead with its inflammatory and provocative programme in Ayodhya on .
defiance of the law of the land, is behind bars. However, one has to reckon with the fact that they can count among their accomplices the Prime Minister of the country, who, when asked to take action to defend public order and communal harmony, asks us to "trust the VHP". If our memory of 61h December, 1992 had become dim, Mr. Togadla .~ has now reminded us in quite explicit terms the VHP plans to do. .
The VHP's ultimatums on the Ayodhya issue have a very blatant correlation with election dates. Last year the .
Cfttrlect BJP having lost badly in the earlier municipal elections In the state. The culmination of this communal campaign was.
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h::'ct"'rnun same VHP-Bajrang Dal had given the call for a shiladaan programme just prior to the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Is th the unprecedented state-sponsored carnage of February-March which claimed thousands of innocent lives. The .
16.....8rrJiy C:h, the Ayodhya issue. The implication is clear: vote the BJP to power with a majority of its own in the coming Lok Sabha .
electoral motivations are even more crudely obvious this time round: the VHP's demand is for a Central legislation on .
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elections and the temple will be built in Ayodhya regardless of the Supreme Court's decisions. .
However the experience of the years of NDA rule have made the people wise to the Sangh Glroh's.
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machinations. Along with Togadia's statement, today's newspapers also report the opposition expressed by the .
people of Ayodhya to the VHP's call. Relatives of the victims of the condemnable Godhra incident-on whose tragic deaths Modi built his fascistic theory of action and reaction-have come out openly against harassment by the lumpens of the Sangh Giroh. Faced with this popular opposition to its gameplan, the Sangh Giroh has become increasingly desperate. Vajpayee no longer goes about with his moderate mukhota, engineering cynical proposals of 'negotiated' settlements through sants and seers. He explicitly echoes VHP-Bajrang Dal's defiance of the Supreme Court and the law. For, it is clear that if it wants to escape the wrath of the people, it is only in the VHP that the Sangh .
What is unfortunate is the complete opportunism shown by the principal oppositional formation, the Congress, .
in the face of this communal threat. As a result the lack of any initiatives on people's issues and given its continuedcan trust. .
commitment to the anti-people policies of liberalisation, the Congress is trying to hold on to power by compromising on Togadia. Even in our own campus we find the same tendency at work, with the NSUI welcoming a well-known the issue of secularism. Its leaders like A.K. Antony are publicly hobnobbing with criminals of the Sangh Giroh like communal and casteist lumpen who was the President of the ABVP's JNU unit into its organisation and bringing out .
processions in which known communal elements of this campus participate. .
The Sangh is today trying to drag our country back into medieval times by its communal politics and the opportunism of formations like the Congress can hardly be an answer to it. We call upon all progressive, democratic-.
minded and secular people to unite behind the Left and democratic alternative and give a fitting rebuff to the RSS-.
VHP-ABVP's polftics of hate. .
PUBLIC MEETING .
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COM. D. RAJA COM. PRAKASH KARAT [National Secretary, CPI] .
[Politbureau Member, CPI(M)] .
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SFI-AISF PANEL FOR JNUSU ELECTIONS 2003 Vice-President: ENA PANDA .
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General Secretary: B. MAHESH SARMA SLL&CSSIS ATIF ANWARsss A. ARUN PRASHANTH FAUZAN ABRAR .
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Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
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ALL l:NDl:A STUDENTS ASSOC:IATl:ON (Al:.SA) .
1510312002 IXth JNU Unit Conference March Ahead Against Communal Fascism, for Secular Democracy, Social Dignity and Liberation! .
Dismiss Modi Govt! .
Punish the Culprits of Gujarat! .
Defeat BJP's gameplan to .
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handover the Ayodhya land to .
VHP! .
Reject POTO! .
Resist the crackdown on left .
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and democratic movements in the name of "fighting tenorism"! .
Defeat Communal Fascism! .
Long Live Revolutionary .
Democracy!! .
Say NO to surrender to US .
imperialism and Israel's .
racism! .
Stand up for a sovereign, .
secular India! .
Reject Xlh Plan: .
The Saffron garneplan! .
Intensify the struggle against privatization and saffronisation of education! .
Say NO to the politics of .
compromise and doublespeak! .
Uphold the banner of .
uncompromising struggle! .
Rally around AISA!! .
Whatever happened in Ayodhya today, may be 'symbolic' so far the saffron brigade is concerned, but it is not just 'symbolic' so far the Indian state is concerned-it has dangerously real meaning. Tnspite of knowing full well the illegal and fanatical nature of VHP's activities in Ayodhya, the PMO chose to send its representative to accept the 'Shilas' . By doing this the PMO, inspite of being circumscribed by the SC and chastised by public opinion, has demonstrated that it is ever ready to placate the whims and fancies of the saffron brigade. .
throwing the law of the land to the winds. .
When terrorists are in power they can twist tenninology to suit themselves. Massive pogroms conducted by them are not acts of terror, but can be called a "mass agitation" against "terrorism" (Narendra Modi's intexview inindia Today). .
Astrology becomes a science, and deliberate, barbaric genocide can be described in the cold, detached, rational language of science, as "Newton's Third Law"! It was thus that Hitler's deputy Dr. Gocbbels petformed mass genocide in the concentration camps in the manner ofa scientist in a laboratory of rats. When law and state machinery are in the hands of these mass murderers, justice, naturally, becomes a casualty. For instance -.
A peaceful, democratic movement of a crore ofpeople resisting the drowning out of their lives and livelihood by a dam are told by the law that they have no share in national resources -their only role in development can be that of sacrificial goats! And whoever questions this version of justice can be declared unlawful and sent to jail! .
Wholesale sellout of national resources to multinational capital on diktats of .
the US might seem too much like an anti-national surrender ofour independence. .
So, to pre-empt the agitations that are bound to take place against such .
sellouts, the Govt. takes the precaution of including worker!!' unions in its list .
of anti-national activities punishable under POTO. In the film Maa Tujhe .
Salaam, a protest against price hike is shown to be stage managed by terrorists. If .
people can believe "all dissent is terrorism in disguise" on screen, the govt. hopes .
to persuade them to believe it in real life too. So, while acts of terror are caned .
"mass agitations", mass agitations are called "acts of terror"! .
Tribals and landless poor, waging their struggle for their rightful share of land, water and forests, are routinely beaten, raped, shot, as the police seeks to delegiti.mise their movement by accusing Naxalites of being "terrorist-funded". Even as police terror in the name of "tackling Naxalism" spreads all over the country, noted Telegu poet Sri Sri's poem resounds from our villages today, echoing that Naxalism is nothing but the popular name for the revolutionary Communist movement in India -· .
"Yesterday the White man calledyou Bhagat Singh, .
Today they call you Naxalite ... .. .
Tomorrow everyone will call you the Mornmg Star/ " .
The most consistent challenge to fascist crackdowns has come from peoples' .
movements and the revolutionary left which continues to organize tribals in UP .
and Jharkhand and landless poor in Bihar. .
The revolutionary student movement of AISA, refusing to be cowed down by .
threats of bans under POTO, continue defiantly to forge links of students with .
poor peasantry, holding aloft the spirit of Naxalbari. It is lhis "Morning Star" .
which will guide the way for all those who march for liberation and democracv .
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IXth JNU Unit Conference: .
16thMarch, 2002 (Saturday) 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. · at Teflas T.V. Room .
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Sd/-Inteshar V.P. AISA, JNU Sdl· Mahendra, Jt.Secy., AISA, JNU .
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The Supreme Court Judgment Says that according to the faith,belief and trust of the Hindus The Janmaasthan of Lord Ram at Ayodhya on Sarayu River is the place where he was born. This does not mean that the actual birthplace of Lord Ram was located here.
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Khudai Khidmatgar organized a camp in Ayodhya Dec 23-25. Around 55
participants from eight states attended the leadership camp. The program
included "parbhat pheri" from Ayodhya Railway Station to Saryu river and
"sharm-daan" at Saryu Ghat.
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The Ayodhya Verdict: Dipankar Bha·acha-.
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A Blow to the Spirit of Modern India.
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On the eve of the Allahabad High Court verdict on Ayodhya, we had said the verdict would be a "test case for India's.
secularism, democracy and justice." Now, following a close look at the shocking verdict, we must say it has failed.
this test on every count. 30 September, 2010 will now be bracketed with 6 December, 1992. Eighteen years after the.
dastardly physical demolition of the Babri Masjid, we have now seen its judicial demolition, a verdict that flies in the.
face of the basic principles of justice and rule of law, and challenges the fundamental spirit of a secular, democratic.
modern India..
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The High Court was supposed to decide on the title suit regarding the disputed site. It is well known that the BJP and.
its Sangh siblings were all along wary of the court deciding on this case on the plea that the whole issue concerned.
"faith" and there could be no adjudication over "faith". It was clear to them that they had no legal basis for their claim.
and hence they chose the way of cheating the country. They assured everybody that the law of the land would be.
honoured, and then betrayed their own words to demolish the mosque through a communal-fascistic mobilisation in.
broad daylight..
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Today, the Sangh is jubilant that the High Court has turned "faith" into law. All the three judges have accepted the fact.
that the idols of Ram, Sita and Bharat were smuggled in from outside on the intervening night of 22-23 December, 1949..
Yet the judges have ruled by 2-1 majority that the "disputed structure" was not a mosque because it was apparently.
constructed by demolishing a Hindu religious structure and hence according to the tenets of Islam, it could not have.
the sanctity of a mosque! The other judge has of course differed on both counts - but the majority view prevailed..
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The verdict is based heavily on two factors - the so-called `archaeological evidence' marshalled by the ASI in its 2003.
report that there was a Hindu temple on the site before the mosque was built, and the `faith' held by many Hindus that.
the disputed area is the birthplace of Lord Ram. The ASI report has been widely questioned and rejected by a whole.
range of historians and archaeologists, and can at best be treated as a piece of speculative conjecture based on.
dubious evidence and questionable interpretation. The other aspect, `faith', is just that - faith, which can by no means.
be treated as an evidence to decide a title suit..
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By treating Ram as a juristic entity (albeit a minor) represented by his self-appointed `guardian' in a title suit, the Alla-.
habad High Court has set up a dangerous precedent of mixing blind faith and prejudice, masquerading as religion, with.
jurisprudence. It should be noted that the youngest litigant in this case, Ram Lalla Virajman, which has been awarded.
one-third of the disputed site including the all important central dome, claimed by the Sangh brigade as the exact.
birthplace of Lord Ram, was set up in 1989 by none other than a former judge of the Allahabad High Court, Shri Deoki.
Nandan Agarwal, who played a key role in making a `legal' case out of the Mandir campaign of the Sangh brigade..
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Having conceded the Ramjanambhoomi claim on thoroughly questionable grounds, the judges sought to give the.
whole thing the appearance of a reconciliatory measure whereby the disputed land would be apportioned into three.
equal parts with one part going to the waqf board. Reconciliation can only be attempted and achieved on the basis of.
truth and justice. In this case, both truth (at least recorded historical truth) and justice have been sacrificed at the altar.
of this phoney reconciliation formula and hence it is a compound travesty of all three. Can there ever be a dignified.
compromise by compromising truth and justice?.
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After Gujarat genocide, the BJP had been steadily losing ground in most parts of the country. Ever since its debacle.
in the 2009 Lok Sabha election - its second successive defeat in five years, the party seemed virtually clueless as.
to how to arrest its continuing state of demoralisation and desperation. Now the Allahabad High Court verdict has.
breathed some fresh life into the demoralised and desperate saffron camp. Advani has already described the verdict.
as heralding a new chapter in the country's history of national integration. In all likelihood, an emboldened BJP will.
now try and reopen the whole gamut of its `suspended agenda' and refuel its Hindutva campaign..
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The judicial trajectory of the case will now reach the Supreme Court. It remains to be seen if and how far the Supreme.
Court can salvage the spirit of law and justice and heal the post-Ayodhya wound on the body polity and the composite.
culture of the country that has only been rendered deeper and more acute by the Allahabad High Court verdict. Every.
effort must be made to make sure that the glorious tradition of India's composite culture and the secular democratic.
vision of modern India prevail over the Sangh brigade's conspiracy to redefine India on retrograde majoritarian lines..
If the possibility of an out-of-court settlement has to be explored even at this stage, it must not be at the cost of the.
basic principle of reason and justice..
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India must and shall move on, and precisely for this purpose the forces of unreason and obscurantism need to be.
pushed back. There can be no compromise with the crude champions of the `might is right' argument who are des-.
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an aisa releaseperate to silence the voices of reason and progress by all means..
(from ML Update Editorial 5-12 Oct).
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