Jaipur for Aman &Sadhbhavna: Rally Demands cases against MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja and Banwari Lal Singhal and arrests of all accused and conspirators for all killings lynchings
Tags: Rally, Lynching, Justice, Hate speech, Gyan Dev Ahuja, Banwari Lal Singhal, Muslim persecution, Savitri Bai Phule, Targeted violence
Related Issue: Right to Life and Personal Liberty, Right to Equality, Right Against Discrimination, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Right to Protest, Protection of Minority Rights
Report of the Rally in Jaipur on 3rd January. Savitri Bai Phule Jayanti.
“Against Hate, for Peace, Harmony and Justice”
Nafrat ke Virudh, Aman, Sadbhavna aur Nyaya ke liye,
Rally demands* Arrest of MLAs, Gyan dev Ahuja and Banwari Lal Singhal, for their hate speech utterances.
Vasundhara Raje as CM, ensure justice for all those killed due to lynchings and an end to Targeting of Muslim.
Decision taken to form Aman Committees at District and block level and launching Samvidhan yatras in every city , village in this month and conclude on 30th January
On the birth anniversary of Savitri Bai Phule, who represented women’s empowerment and a society with equality and justice, Jaipur saw a big rally of people demanding peace and justice in Rajasthan, bringing an end to lynchings of Muslims. Between April and December series of 5 lynchings of Muslims had taken place in the State. SLOGANS in the rally included “Vasundhara Raje stop hate politics”, “Bring justice to all killed in hate politics”, “Samvidhan Zindabad, Constitution Long Live”, ” Sanghwaad murdabad- Death to RSS ideology”, “Vasundhara Raje ensure peace now”, Arrest the real killers of Pehlu Khan, Zafar Khan, Umar khan, Talim hussain and Afrazul.
The rally was organised jointly by Dalit groups, muslim organizations, citizens organizations, trade unions, student organisations, womens organization, civil society based groups, left parties and their organizations.
It was felt that the State was burning in the fire of Hate and the brutal killing in Rajsamand of Afrazul by one Shambhu Lal Regar had opened a new chapter in the book of Hate. A killing which shocked the nation as it was a killing which was video taped and then several videos including that of the killing and of justifying the killings were put on social media by the killer before his arrest. Instantly making him a Hero of Hate politics. It was not a mere coincidence that the killing was done on the day that the demolition of Babri Masjid happened. A day observed by the Hindutva forces as Shaurya Diwas. A day to celebrate Hindutva domination over Muslims.
In almost all the cases of lynchings the culprits were still at large with complete impunity to the killers. To top it all the hate speech was at its worst with lead being taken by MLAs Gyan Dev Ahuja, who said all cow smugglers should be shot dead and MLA Banwari Lal Singhal from Alwar too made a statement that Muslims ate reproducing at the rate if 12 to 14 children per family as they want to out do the Hindus in terms of population and grab the President, PM and other constitutional seats. No cases had been filed against them. The rally demanded booking them for hate speech along with their arrests.
The rally also demanded that peace be restored which consisted of arrest of all the accused in all the lynching matters including those provoking such killings along with making a policy of ending all targeted violence against Muslims, Christians and Dalits.
Several questions were raised by the rallyists of the CM which included whether the State had made a policy of lodging false FIRs against cow rearers and dairy farmers if they were Muslims, at the behest of the so called Gau Rakshaks.
Why did the Government have the agenda of destroying Muslim livelihoods in the Mewat area who were only dairy farmers, cow rearers and agriculturalists. Would the killers named by Pehlu khan before he died never be arrested. Would Pratapgarh’s Zafar Khan killing be treated as a death due to natural circumstance and the killers never be arrested and would the killers of Umar khan be arrested after the bypolls of Alwar. Would Talim Hussain’s killers in.khakhi ever be booked for their crime.
The rallyists decided to set up Aman, Sadbhavna and Nyaya committees at all district and the tehsil levels. They also decided to do a Constitution yatra in the run up to Republic day. Along with other plans. A resolution condemning the Government of Maharashtra for not protecting the dalits and letting the Manuvadi forces attack the dalits brazenly which led to the killing of one Dalit in Koregaon who were observing the 200 years since the defeat of the peshwa rulers in the hands of the Mahar regiment, was also passed.
Timeline for the 2017 which was a year of horror for Rajasthan was read out to. March saw a near lynching situation where at the behest of one Kamal didi and her goons of the Rashtriya Gaurakshak mahila dal the staff of Rabbani Hotel was beaten up, the hotel sealed that night and a false case filed against the Hotel owners that they had fed beef to stray cows. April saw Pehlu khan a farmer from Jaisinghpur, Nuh in Haryana who died on 3rd of April in Behror, Alwar District when he was brutally attacked by So called Gau rakshaks when he, his sons and two other villagers were transporting cattle just bought from a cattle fair in Jaipur, back to their village on 1st April. June saw Zafar Khan killed by safai karamcharis and the Nagar Palika Adhyaksh of Pratapgarh as Zafar Khan objected to women being harassed by them when they were defaecating in the open. This was the first Swach Bharat killings. November saw Umar Khan from Ghatimika, Kaman, Bharatpur who was transporting cattle with two other colleagues attacked with bullets and killed near Govindgarh, Alwar. His colleague Tahir too got a bullet who managed to escape with the driver Javed from the scene of crime. As if the murder was not enough his body was taken 15kms away on to a railway track so that by trains running over him, there would be no identification of the person. Only two of the murderers were arrested and 6 others were at large, instead those travelling with Umar were in Jail. In the case of Talim Hussein which also took place on the night of 6th and 7th December which saw the Alwar police do the job of the Gau Rakshaks and killed one Talim Hussain the driver of one truck which was carrying stray cows, calling it an encounter. No cases had been lodged in this matter calling Talim Hussain a cow smuggler. The last case being that of Afrazul.
The rally ended with a memorandum being handed over to a magistrate on duty at the CIVIL Lines phatak where the sabha happened. The CM we were told was out of station. The memorandum was handed by former MLA Ayub khan from Alwar who wept at the deteriorating condition in the state.
The speaker’s included, Suman Devathiya of All India Dalit Mahila Manch, Iqbal Siddiqui of JIH, Rajasthan, Bhanwar meghwanshi of the PUCL, Ravindra Shukla, CPIM, Nisha Sidhu CPI and NFIW, Manjulata CPIML Liberation and AIPWA Trade unionist Harkesh Bugalia, Maulana Hanif of Insaf, Alwar, NoorMohammed from the PUCL, Lad Kumari Jain from RUWA, Sawai Singh, Samagra Sewa Sangh, Ayub Khan, ex MLA Alwar, Abrar from muslim forum, Baluji from the MKSS, Dashrath kumar Hinuniya, Ambedkarite Party. There were about 30 organization who had come together. The meeting was coordinated by Sumitra Chopra, CPIM and AIDWA and Kavita srivastava, Secretary, PUCL National.
Contact persons: Sumitra Chopra (9462171994), Nisha Sindhu (9414443607), Sawai Singh (9413200004), Iqbal Siddiqui (7737509669), Bhanwar Meghwanshi (95710-47777), Kavita Srivastava (9351562965), Nishat Hussain (9829334500) Mukesh (9468862200) Basant Haryana (9887767688), Tek Chand Rahul (9414238153), Dashrath Kumar Hinuniya (9460084593),Harold Singh, (9829856789), Rashid Hussain (8233575757), Latif Arco (9314501325), Abid Khan 950903040, Harkesh Bugalia (9314506344),Tara Chand Verma (9783441116), Kailash Meena (9928136988), Rahul.