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From: "shabnam hashmi" <[email protected]>
Sent: 05-03-2015 15:54
Subject: MARCH 19, 2015 PROGRAMME
Dear Friends,
In a few days, Mr. Narendra Modi completes 300 days as the
Prime Minister of India.
He came into office riding a promise of development, his election
campaign was fuelled by subtle hate against religious minorities. His
campaign was having the unstinted support of Corporate and was manned
by lakhs of volunteers of RSS.
During last few months the intensity of the divisive agenda of RSS
combine has gone up tremendously. Cadres of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad,
the Bajrang Dal and scores of other sister-groups have intensified the
intimidating campaigns like "Ghar Wapsi" and "Love-Jihad". There were
attacks on places of worship of religious minorities. A minister of
the Government, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti, said that those not believing
in Ram are (Haramjade) illegitimate. One of the ruling party MPs went
on to praise Godse, calling him patriot. This government tried to
remove the words Secular and Socialist from the Preamble of our
Constitution. The talk of Gita being a National book was also voiced.
During this period the incidents of communal violence has gone up,
nearly 600 during last eight months. The associates of BJP have become
more assertive and the intimidation of the religious minorities has
gone up. The economic agenda is being tuned for the benefit of
corporate houses. The plight of farmers, dalits and Adivasis is
worsening by the day. During this period the Sakshi Maharaj, Yogi
Adityanath and Sadhvi Prachi have been saying that Hindu women should
produce more children. In Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and
other states, the terror, physical violence and social ostracizing of
Dalit and Tribal Christians, in particular, continues unabated.
The Prime Minister is a trained pracharak of RSS, his parent
organization. RSS is going hammer and tongs asserting its agenda of
Hindu Rashtra. While he is keeping mum on issues of crucial importance
like Hindutva and Hindu Rashtra, RSS has become more aggressive on
these issues. Mr. Mohan Bhagwat, the RSS Sarsanghchalak recently
stated that "Hindutva is the identity of India and it has the capacity
to swallow other identities." In Cuttack, he asserted that India is a
Hindu state and "citizens of Hindustan should be known as Hindus".
What more can be said against Indian Constitution than this statement
of Mr. Bhagwat!
To say that all this intimidation was being done by fringe elements of
RSS will be missing the point. It's a clever 'division of labor'
between different progeny of RSS combine. There are clear signals of
the erosion of the liberal democratic space which we so value and need
for the struggles of the deprived sections of society. The religious
minorities are being treated in a way which sans dignity and equality.
All social groups do feel the heat of this Government, which is out to
stifle the democratic space.
We all realize that these 300 days have seen erosion of democratic
values, there is a reversal or dilution of existing legislations which
are pro-poor. Environmental norms have been diminished to an extent
that now they will be almost nonexistent, threatening the environment
and the climate. Land acquisition laws are being changed to benefit
crony capital.
It is time that we, all those committed to values of pluralism,
democracy and equality, need to stand together to protest against the
erosion of the values of our Constitution. The very Idea of India,
democratic, Secular and compassionate, is under threat with these
policies which are being unleashed in an aggressive way. We need to
uphold the values of Secularism, which has been the cementing factor
of our Freedom movement, which has been the core spirit of our Indian
Nation.
The dream and vision of Idea of India can be sustained and promoted
only through our vigilance and struggle for Human rights of all, more
so the deprived sections of society. We do envision a society with
equality and dignity, freedom with affirmative action, pluralism with
scientific temper. It's through our struggles for democratic rights
which will shape a better India in times to come.
We the following organizations appeal to you to join in the protest to
restore the values of Indian nationalism. This is a call for a united
response from the vast majority of Indian society who has shown
repeatedly that they want to preserve the secular traditions of the
country which derived from a united Freedom struggle. It is a call for
the IDEA OF INDIA which came up during freedom movement. We reiterate
our faith in values of Indian Constitution and appeal to all those who
stand for Indian nationalism to come forward to shape the future for
Humane India.
Civil society groups based in Delhi, but many representing all-India
organizations, met a few days ago to plan a Rally and Dharna at Jantar
Mantar, New Delhi, 19th March 2015, 11 am to 7 pm.
The programme will have speakers from civil society and secular
political parties, victims, artists, intellectuals. The time will be
divided between speakers in Delhi, those coming from outside,
political leaders and cultural performances. Cultural programmes will
be an important component of the programmeA report on the 300 days
keeping the violations regarding the above issues in mind will be
prepared and released.
We seek your collaboration and participation in this Rally and Dharna
We also call upon Organizations to endorse this appeal.
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Today a planning meeting was organised to further discuss and finalise
the programme for March 19.
1. So far approx 40 organisations have endorsed.
2. It was decided that all organisations who are coming on board will
contribute minimum Rs 1000 but Rs 5000 is preferable for those who can
pay or more. Funds will be given to Anhad and receipt received, after
the programme the total expense details will be shared with everyone.
4. The organisations present at the meeting have tentatively committed
to mobilise 2000 people but the target is 5000 and there is a need to
reach out to more groups.
5. It was reported that a delegation met Prakash Karat (CPM) and Atul
Anjan (CPI). CPM has agreed to fully support the programme and has
committed that their mass organisations will participate. various
people will be meeting other secular parties today and over the next
few days with similar requests for participation.
6. Everyone was requested to talk to organisations and mass movements
who have not come on board so far. An attempt should be made to
contact groups outside Delhi especially neighboring states. Last date
of endorsement is March 10, 2015
7. Next meeting will be held on March 10 at 4pm. tentative venue is
Indian Social Institute but it will be conveyed again before the
meeting.
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