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Dadri lynching: India should hang its head in shame

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Dadri killing premeditated, says National Commission for Minorities


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Debunking the notion that the Dadri lynching was an “accident,” the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) says the assembly of a mob that killed Muhammad Akhlaq on September 28 was a “premediated” act of violence.
The NCM is a government-run body with a mandate to safeguard the constitutional rights of the religious minorities.
On October 10, its team visited Bishara village in Dadri district of western Uttar Pradesh to probe the killing.
The report dispels the claim that the assembly of the mob was “spontaneous.” According to the report: “The team feels that a crowd of large numbers appearing within minutes of the announcement from the temple’s loudspeaker and at a time when most villagers claimed they were asleep seems to point to some premeditated planning.”
Since Union Minister Mahesh Sharma concluded that the incident was an “accident,” the report challenges the notion, saying: “A sacred place like a temple was used for exhorting people of one community to attack a hapless family.” Therefore, calling it an accident would be an “under-statement.”
On the night of September 28, the priest of the temple made a loud announcement that the remains of a slaughtered cow were found near Akhlaq’s house. Hearing that, a mob broke into Akhlaq’s house, accusing him of eating and storing cow meat, and killed him instantly.
The NCM team has expressed concern at the growing vigilantism in western Uttar Pradesh. It perceives the ongoing moral policing in the region as a “malaise” which is “spreading fast.” Picking holes in the functioning of the police, the report says intelligence-gathering “is no more occurring in the rule book of the authorities. It has to be revived with utmost sincerity.”
http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...mail&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter

Let us not trivialize and follow RSS lead. This killing of innocent human being was not a Small episode.


In the Dadri case, and others of its kind, that ground scarcely needs marking.No civilised society condones murder by lynch mob, no matter what the alleged crime. Once Akhlaq’s killing became nationally known earlier this month, Modi should have condemned it strongly and unequivocally . By not doing so, he opened the door for a non-stop barrage of stupidity , poor taste and downright ugliness from his party men and the extended Sangh Parivar.
 
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[h=1]Dadri brought more shame to India than ink attack: Uddhav[/h]
In a sharp attack against the BJP, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Thursday that ink attacks carried out by his party workers did not defame India, but the lynching of a person in Dadri did.
“What is this uproar over beef? If you are so concerned about people eating beef in India, why don’t you declare this country a Hindu Rashtra? Why don’t you implement Uniform Civil Code? No one will eat beef ever in this country and the entire chaos will come to halt,” he said, without naming the BJP, in his annual Dasara rally speech in Mumbai.
“Incidents like Dadri in which a man was killed over a false assumption of eating beef defames this country more than the ink attack,” he said.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities...ttack-uddhav/article7793027.ece?homepage=true
 
Now there is one more twist......... suspected love jihad!


Dadri lynching result of Akhlaq son’s affair with Hindu girl: ABVP to claim

The ABVP is not clear on which one of the two brothers had an “affair” with a Hindu girl.

At its annual state-level convention to be held in Sitapur from November 1 to 3, RSS students’ wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is set to come up with the claim that the Dadri lynching was the result of a personal dispute, with one of Mohammad Akhlaq’s two sons having a “love affair with a Hindu girl”, and that politicians wrongly projected it as a fallout of “beef consumption”. Akhlaq, 50, had been dragged out of his home and killed by a mob allegedly following rumours that his family was storing and consuming beef. His 22-year-old son Danish was also assaulted and received serious injuries. Danish’s elder brother Sartaj is a technician in the Indian Air Force in Chennai.

See more at: http://indianexpress.com/article/in...indu-girl-abvp-to-claim/#sthash.7uHrBMuV.dpuf
 
In the backdrop of communal tensions over the lynching of a Muslim man in Dadri, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday called upon citizens to respect and celebrate India's diversity and said "peace, harmony and unity" were the key to progress.

Invoking Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel ahead of his birth anniversary on October 31, Modi said the "mantra" of unity must consistently be the medium of "our thinking, behaviour and expression".



"India is full of diversity. It has different sects, different religions, different languages and different castes. There are so many diversities in our India and this diversity is our beauty," the PM said in his 'Mann ki Baat' radio address to the nation.

Recalling how the country had been observing Patel's birth anniversary by organizing 'Run for Unity' for many years, the PM said, "In other words, the run for unity is the guarantee for run for progress", urging people to pay tribute to Patel by carrying forward the "mantra" of unity. He said if this diversity was not there, "we would not have been able to feel proud. Therefore, diversity is the mantra of unity".

His comments acquire significance in view of the rise in communal tensions in many parts of the country over beef ban and, lately, religious processions. It was, in fact, the second time that Modi broached the issue of communal harmony amid the surcharged atmosphere where he has been targeted for his silence on the mob killing in Dadri.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...-mantra-PM-Modi-says/articleshow/49531614.cms
 
http://www.dailyo.in/politics/akhla...oojary-indian-muslims-nehru/story/1/7069.html

The article makes some good points; hopefully won't get drowned by the cacophony of the jihadi-jesus lobby!

The abominable lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh has set off a firestorm of commentary and analysis from India's intellectuals.

The criticism mounted by Centre for Policy Research president Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta, where he laid the responsibility for the murder squarely at the door of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been heavily debated and has particularly struck a chord.


Writing with uncharacteristic fury in the the pages of The Indian Express, Mehta asserted that the gruesome murder "exemplified the depths of the barbarity that lurks behind the veneer of our civilisation."


This column isn't about Akhlaq's gruesome killing, which deserves nothing but unequivocal censure. One hopes the Uttar Pradesh state government finds the perpetrators responsible for the heinous crime, and brings them to book. However, the response to the murder of Mohammad Akhlaq tells us far more about our media and intellectual establishment, than it does about our civilisation - this column is about that establishment.


It is most curious that this establishment has been making a unified, vociferous demand for the prime minister to specifically address Akhlaq's murder. Consider a few other horrific crimes motivated by religion have taken place across India over the last year. In Meerut, a 22-year old Hindu man was murdered in broad daylight by the brothers of a Muslim woman with whom he had been in a relationship - the brothers proceeded to murder their sister after hacking her lover to death. There have been several reported cases about the abduction and rape of young Hindu girls by Muslims from states including Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. In Hajipur, Bihar, a Hindu man was murdered by a mob of a hundred people for marrying a Muslim woman. In Karnataka, a 29-year old Hindu flower seller, Prashant Poojary, who was also an activist against cow slaughter, was stabbed to death in a market, his six attackers escaping quickly on motorcycles.


Why should the prime minister of India speak out about one crime motivated by religion, but not the others? The position India's eminent intellectuals are taking is Narendra Modi is not prime minister of India, but prime minister of Hindus: he should be made answerable for the crimes of Hindus, but not for those committed by individuals of other faiths, even though those crimes may be just as heinous. The sickening perversity of the position that "Narendra Modi must condemn the Dadri murder" is that a crime committed against a "minority" community member matters more than a crime committed against a "majority" community member.


Our individual identities stripped and dissolved, each of us becomes merely a member of a group - there couldn't be anything more communal and poisonous than attaching different weights on human life, depending on which religion an individual follows. As society, are we going to treat the murder of a Poojary differently from the murder of a Mohammad?


If a murder is a murder and a crime is a crime, why must the prime minister speak only about atrocities where "minority" community members are victims? By relentlessly demanding that the prime minister condemn the Dadri murder, his critics are seeking to pigeonhole him as the spokesman of Hindus. This is a trap. The cacophony became so loud, that the prime minister, in an interview with a Bengali newspaper, described the Dadri incident as "unfortunate and unwarranted".


Moreover, if the murder of a Muslim by a Hindu mob reflects on the barbarity lurking behind the veneer of our civilisation, as Mehta would have us believe, does the murder of a Hindu by Muslims not reflect upon any barbarity in "our civilisation"? Who is the "our" - are Muslims excluded from India's civilisation? Are they not Indians? Or is Mehta writing about Hindu and Indic civilisations from which he has excised Indian Muslims?


Has the rise of Narendra Modi turned the "secular-liberal" Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta into a freshly minted "Hindu nationalist", who doesn't consider Muslims to be a part of India's civilisation? Mehta has fallen prey to the soft bigotry of low expectations - he is implicitly assigning different behavioural standards to individuals based on the religious group they happen to belong to.


It doesn't end there. Much has been made of the murder of so-called "rationalists". It is another matter that activists like Narendra Dabholkar, whom every "secular" intellectual worth his or her salt has been lionising since his murder, agitated for a law that has turned members of the Aghori community, a small Hindu sect, into criminals. Think about that: Some individuals have been turned into criminals for who they are, and those who made it happen are being touted as paragons of rationalism and liberalism.


While buckets of tears are being shed for the murder of "rationalists" like Dabholkar, not a word of support has been offered for Sanal Edamaruku. Groups affiliated with the Catholic Church filed a complaint charging Edamaruku with blasphemy when he exposed how a crucifix was dripping water not because of miracle by Jesus Christ but because of the scientific phenomenon of capillary action, forcing Edamaruku to flee to Finland in 2012. Edamaruku has elected to stay abroad because he fears he may be jailed indefinitely if he comes to India, or may even be assassinated.


As Anand Ranganathan has written for Newslaundry, while India's "secular" intellectuals are quick to ascribe all blame for the murder of activists like Dabholkar to Hindu extremists, what they choose to ignore in the absence of evidence and a credible, comprehensive police investigation is that Dabholkar may have been murdered by Christian fundamentalists because of his stout opposition to Mother Teresa's canonisation by the Catholic Church - "when clues don't emerge, biases do", wrote Ranganathan.


The most disgusting, vile, nauseating, morally odious and revealing episode of all has been the revolt of the writers led by Jawaharlal Nehru's niece, the 88-year old Nayantara Sahgal. "What's the use of smart cities if stupid people live in them," Sahgal proclaimed on national television, in a moment of absolute honesty to her credit. The eminent writer felt that there was no point living in a smart city if you entertained baseless beliefs about why Lord Ganesha has an elephant's head.


Some background is in order here. India's intellectuals have enjoyed astonishing patronage from the Indian state, which has been controlled for over 50 years since 1947 by the Congress party and the Nehru-Gandhi family. In 1954, Russian painter Svetoslav Roerich and his wife, film actress and grandniece of Rabindranath Tagore, Devika Rani, received 100 acres of land from the Karnataka (then Mysore) state government, whose chief minister was Congress party's Kengal Hanumanthaiah.


Consider the spectacle of an infant republic and a dirt poor democracy doling out public land to a Russian painter and his film star wife - having just taken away lands and properties owned by feudal landlords in the name of social justice.


There is another interesting aside to the Roerich story. In his book Nehru: The Making of India, Nehru biographer MJ Akbar recounted how Nehru had been romantically connected with Devika Rani in the 1930s. In a personal letter dated January 2 1937, Nehru wrote that his mother had confronted him with "suppressed rage", based on popular rumour, about his links to Devika Rani.


Opening an exhibition of over a hundred paintings by Roerich in New Delhi in January 1960, Nehru described it as a "feast of beauty" and said he felt "a strange sensation - one of beauty, one of harmony and one of some depth". In Sahgal's modestly titled book Jawaharlal Nehru: Civilizing A Savage World - with all the objectivity at her command, Nayantara Sahgal seems to believe that her uncle was a civilising force for the big, bad, savage world we all inhabit - Sahgal writes that Devika Rani was an ardent admirer of Nehru and "sent him a photograph of herself in a silver frame. After independence, she and her husband Svetoslav Roerich were visitors to Nehru's official residence Teen Murti House whenever they came to Delhi from Bangalore". Even today, Roerich's paintings of Nehru and Indira Gandhi can be found in the Central Hall of Parliament.


If Sahgal, who holds such contempt for ordinary Indians because their personal beliefs and faith are "stupid" in her opinion, had any appreciation for the incredible privilege she has enjoyed, she would have paused to ask why India's masses are the way they are.


Could it be because her uncle, as India's first prime minister, failed to prioritise primary school education? Could it be because her uncle, as prime minister for 17 years, neglected food security and agricultural productivity, even trying in 1959 to collectivise agriculture like Soviet Russia's Stalin and China's Mao had? Even today, not getting adequate nutrition impedes the physical growth and mental development of millions of Indian children. Could it be that this is caused by decades of bad governance, mostly inflicted on India by Sahgal's own family?


In the echo chambers populated by our writers and intellectuals, even asking such questions is blasphemy. Indeed, mundane topics of governance do not interest our eminences, and questions such as why the law and order machinery controlled by India's state governments is so impotent, why justice delivery is so slow and courts so dysfunctional,and why ordinary citizens have just no fear of the law are barely raised for public debate. If the question is never raised, no solution can be deliberated and no change achieved. New Delhi's intellectual establishment is a reactionary set that is unable and unwilling to offer any new ideas to solve age-old governance problems. It is both more permanent and less accountable than India's much maligned bureaucracy.


It is no surprise that this establishment is increasingly ignored by India's "stupid" citizens and discredited in the eyes of the public, for they deserve no better. It is not political parties alone that are spreading poison to weaken Indian democracy - poison is being spread by this elitist establishment, which is unable to reconcile with its own irrelevance and is chafing at the loss of its privileged position under a new political dispensation. Through its charged pronouncements, the ancient regime may vitiate public discourse in the shorter run, but over time this behaviour will precipitate its own implosion.
 
The veterinary officer in his report said, "Prima facie it seems that meat found in Dadri lynching victim's house belongs to goat progeny." The report also said that samples have been taken for final diagnosis, and have been sent to the forensic laboratory in Mathura.
The report has come less than a week after the Gautambudh Nagar Police charged 15 people, including a minor, in this case.

Vishal Rana, son of BJP leader Sanjay Rana, "figures prominently" in the charge sheet while others named in the document "are involved in rioting."
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/1512...igures-prominently-dadri-lynching-chargesheet
 
I strongly support Mr. Prasad1 on his post. Such an incident shouldn't have happened come what may. However, this should incidence should also be seen for the timing and the impact it has made on the outcome of Bihar Elections. I think ever since the BJP government came to power at center headed by Modi, every single non BJPians were not wasting an opportunity to tarnish BJPs image. This incidence has really come as blessing in-disguise for all those opportunists to get some political mileage. Not much people in the political arcane were bothered about the plight of the poor man's family underwent at that time. Let's pray better sense will prevail in future.
 
I strongly condemn the killing of an innocent man by a mob whatever may be the reason for this inhuman act.
Uttarpradesh,Bihar,MadhyaPradesh areas are known as 'Cow Belt Area'.
So,it is easy to raise passion and anger among these people by spreading false rumours.
It is possible that another political party like Samajwadi party would have planned this incident keeping in view elections in UP.
The way in which compensation amount was raised by Samajwadi party makes me to suspect that party,which has a reputation of safeguarding the interests of muslim community.
Cow is considered a 'Sacred Animal' by all Hindus.
Freedom Fighters thought it relevant to introduce "Ban on Cow slaughter" in the Direct Principles of the Constitution of India
For winning elections, all political parties in India stoop to any low level.
In this connection I want to state an event which took place in 1982 in 'BALIGANJ BRIDGE" in KOLKATTA.
There is an organisation called "ANANDA MARGIS" in eastern parts of India..I am told that they adopt orphan children,give them education.They run Schools.
The party in Power at that time ( CPM)did not like Ananda Margis.
The Party members spread false rumours that Anandmargis kidnap young Children.
At about 7 am,I went to the market near the Bridge to purchase vegetables.Some people(reported to be Principals of Schools run by Ananda Margis) including three ladies were coming in taxis to go to the Headquarters of the organisation to participate in the birth day celebrations of the leader by name SARKAR.
Local People stopped all the Taxis and asked them to come out.As soon as they came out they were hit in legs below Knee with iron rods.
I was afraid and immediately returned to my house.
When I passed through that area again by 9 am,I could see portions of cloth worn by those people.I was told that all of them were killed and set to fire.
Mr.Jyothi Basu was the Chief Minister.I do not know what happened to that case and whether anyone was held responsible for gruesome murder of thirteen persons including three ladies.
Since I had to pass through that place daily,I could not get sleep for many days.
CPM party is still a recognised Party in India.
 
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BJP/RSS had deployed a strong contingent of their field workers, numbering to tens of thousands, in Bihar to "influence" the voters to vote for BJP. I strongly believe that when the BJP top leadership realized that all their strategies are coming to naught, they hit upon creating communal divide between Hindus & Muslims; this Dadri incident was part of this strategy and Amit Shah's statement about crackers being lit in Pakistan if BJP lost the Bihar elections was in continuation. And, that is why BJP leaders and their kin figure prominently in the charge sheet.
 
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