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Ha ha, Louis, at last your radar has detected India!
A 250 million strong nationwide strike by workers and peasants should make
world headlines, but everybody, including the Western Left ignore India.
The Modi Fascist Government has brought in CAA, an act aimed at isolating 185
million Muslims and ultimately to deprive them of
Indian Citizenship.
Since the act was passed in Indian Parliament where Modi's BJP has a crushing
majority, protests have begun modestly in some places.
But when the students of Delhi's JMI University where many Muslim students
study, were brutally attached by the police, the protests spread across the
country.
Since then, protests had taken place on a regular basis in all the cities and
towns across India in the last one month. Delhi had seen
viscous violence on the demonstrators by the police.
Hyderabad had seen a 2 million strong rally against the CAA. Nagpur city, the
base of RSS had seen a similar protest, though on a
slightly smaller scale.
Restrictions were place on all university campuses against assembly and
protests. Now students from even elite colleges have come
out to join the protests.
The students of Indian Institute of Management, a premier institution in
Bengaluru had invented a new way of showing their dissent.
Since assembly of more than 3 people is prohibited, students come to the main
gate one by one, leave their shoes, with a flower and a
protest paper. This is unnerving for the Government.
The students of Jawarlal Nehru University, which is the stronghold of the Left
and the epicentre of the fight against the Hindutva
forces, has been specially targeted, on the lines of Kristalnacht on 5th
January evening. A band of RSS goons, assisted by the police
had entered the University hostels and residences of teachers and brutally
attacked with bamboo sticks and iron rods and dozens
sustained injuries. The police had clamped criminal cases, not on the
attackers, but on the victims!
A positive outcome of the present protests is that Muslims, Christians, the
lower caste untouchables (Dalits) - who were away from
struggles have joined forces together with the Left. Left leaders are
addressing rallies with hundreds of thousands of people.
The protestors display the Indian National Flag and sing songs popular with the
Left, such as the Leftist poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz's "Hum
Dekhenge" ("We Shal See'). Students have come out with innovative banners. One
banner reads, :We Lose Fear, They Lose Power."
This radicalization of students on such a mass scale and defending the
democratic Constitution is a welcome development.
We have to wit and see.
Vijaya Kumar M
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