Even then, the police detained no one. Instead, they were permitted to walk away as if nothing had happened. The police did nothing. Still, the Delhi police pressed no charges. T he onslaught on JNU marked the middle of a season of nationwide protest, provoked by a new law.
The Citizenship Amendment Act, passed by parliament on 11 December , provides a fast track to citizenship for refugees fleeing into India from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Refugees of every south Asian faith are eligible — every faith, that is, except Islam. To votaries of Hindutva, the country is best served if it is expunged of Islam. The act was both a loud signal of that ambition and a handy tool to help achieve it. Since December, millions of Indians have turned out on to the streets to object to this vision of their country.
The government has fought them by banning gatherings, shutting off mobile internet services, detaining people arbitrarily, or worse. After protests flared at Jamia Millia Islamia, an Islamic university in Delhi, cops fired teargas and live rounds , assaulted students and trashed the library. As demonstrations spread across the state of Uttar Pradesh, police raided and vandalised Muslim homes by way of reprisal.
Detainees in custody were beaten; one man reported hearing screams in a police station all night long. In various statements, the police claimed to be acting in self defence, or to prevent violence, or to root out conspiracy.
At least 20 protesters died of bullet wounds. Police officials denied firing at the crowds, even though the police carried the only visible guns at these rallies. Still, the protests have persisted well into February. At Shaheen Bagh, a neighbourhood in south-eastern Delhi, hundreds of thousands of people have turned up over nine weeks to take part in an indefinite sit-in.
The BJP has taken a ruthless view of all this dissent. In its 72 years as a free country, India has never faced a more serious crisis. The political opposition is withered and infirm. More is in the offing: the idea of Hindutva, in its fullest expression, will ultimately involve undoing the constitution and unravelling the fabric of liberal democracy. The ferment gripping India since the passage of the citizenship act — the fever of the protests, the brutality of the police, the viciousness of the politics — has only reflected how existentially high the stakes have become.
Politicians, indoctrinated media outlets and squadrons of social media trolls lie, polarise and demonise all day long. It was still only a generation since independence, and Nehru and the Congress, having led the freedom struggle, exerted enormous moral authority. It was secular in its worldview, left of centre in its economics and technocratic in its thinking on policy. Over the next few decades, the locus of power in student politics migrated further leftwards, into groups that allied themselves with national communist parties.
The ABVP, which opposed all these -isms — secularism, pluralism, socialism, communism — remained on the margins, just like its counterparts in national politics. For almost half a century after independence, the political parties backed by the RSS remained in the political wilderness.
Then a mosque was destroyed, and India changed. For years, the RSS had claimed that the Babri Masjid, a 16th-century mosque in the town of Ayodhya, stood on the very spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The location warranted a temple, the RSS declared, not a mosque built by an invading Muslim king. In the following weeks, religious riots erupted across India, particularly in Mumbai. Two thousand people were killed. In , the BJP came to power for the first time.
On the campus of JNU, in tidy parallel, the fortunes of the ABVP bloomed: it won its first seat in the student union in , three key union posts in , and in , the presidency of the union itself.
No one wrapped blankets around their faces any more. The 90s were a decade of disillusionment with socialism and communism, and so too in JNU. Dust-ups and brawls between student parties, Mahapatra said, were common. The Sangh has also appealed to those who wish to volunteer to work for two years to expand its base across India and ensure its presence in all the development blocks by when it celebrates its centenary.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh as part of expanding its activities is mulling reaching all development blocks of the country in the next three years, RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale said on Saturday. At present we have our presence in 4, out of 6, development blocks but we want to reach all the development blocks of India by March ," he said, briefing reporters on the decisions taken during the three-day Akhil Bharatiya Karyakari Mandal ABKM meeting here, which concluded today.
He added that the Sangh was running its Shakhas in Kashmir but after the migration of Hindus from there, activities were affected. After reaching their states, the regional Pracharaks of the RSS will have to plan a strategy in their states for the Sangh's expansion. Speaking about the Sangh's activities, Hosabale said the daily Shakha operations are taking place at 34, places, which was earlier disrupted due to COVID Since this year is the platinum jubilee of Indian independence, the Sangh has decided to organise exhibitions remembering the contributions of great freedom fighters as well as many unsung heroes of the freedom struggle, Hosabale said.
Is he acting on his own? Praising RSS as a social organization that focuses on disciplining youths, former Union minister and Dalit leader V Srinivasa Prasad on Saturday asked the right-wing organization to launch a fight against untouchability.
The Indian intelligence establishment has been alerted about Pakistan-based groups floating a new tanzeem terror organisation that would claim responsibility for future attacks on security forces, their sources, mediapersons seen close to the government, non-locals in the Valley, Kashmiri Pandits, ruling party politicians, and industrialists, intelligence sources said. After RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat expressed concern over the rising consumption of narcotics in the society, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday hit out at the Centre saying that although Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier asserted that demonetisation would curb the drug menace, it was still present in the country.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday said that the country's journey from 'swadheehnta to swatantrata' is as yet far from complete as there are elements in the world for whom India's progress and its rise to a respected position are detrimental to their vested interests.
Hailing Veer Savarkar as a staunch nationalist and India's first military strategist in the 20th century, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said it was on Mahatma Gandhi's request that he wrote mercy petitions to the British and people from the Marxist and Leninist ideology wrongly accuse him of being a fascist.
An RSS official in a statement said, "During his stay at Jammu, Dr Bhagwat will meet various sections of society, hold deliberations and also discuss the situation post-Article in Jammu and Kashmir. How much area of the India territory does China have to transgress — and for how long does it have to stay there — for all these people to find true courage and patriotism. A statement issued in this regard by Jammu Prant Karvahak stated that during his stay Bhagwat will participate in many programmes in the region.
He had earlier visited Jammu in Days after its attack on Infosys, RSS-affiliate magazine Panchjanya, in its latest issue, has carried a cover story on Amazon, likening the online retail giant to East India Company and accusing it of corrupt practices. You must login to keep earning daily check-in points. Lifetime 0 Expired 0 Redeemed 0.
Total redeemable TimesPoints 0. Sat, Nov 13, Updated Notification Center. Many of the images of violence that were posted online were shared by the perpetrators themselves, who are often young, sometimes even very young, as you can see in several posts. Asked by reporters on February 27 about the unrest in Delhi, RSS General Secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi said only that the government should restore order, adding: "Nobody has the right to take law into their hands.
It not only destroys you but your kids too. This is what the Sangh wants your child to be. They want your children to hold sticks, rods, swords in hands and not books. I hope the parents of these kids understand before it's too late.
That process led to children discovering new friends, and learn to think in and speak the language of love and solidarity with everyone, including strangers. The government, party and the organizations that Priyank Kanoongo has faithfully served have made this possible.
This Instagram post published Feb. He is in daily contact with Muslim friends in Delhi, helping them identify potential aggressors and share information about which neighbourhoods to avoid. Watch this horrific video, Delhi. Sanghis are throwing stones, spreading violence. One Sanghi is shouting Jai Sri Ram on camera and saying "Hamare saath police bhi hai" police is also with us.
Some of the group's supporters film their actions and show off their 'exploits' [on social media]. They think it'll improve their standing in their community.
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