[Marxistindia] Left Parties Statement -- Observe 25th anniversary of Babri Masjid Demolition as Black Day

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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Communist Party of India
Communist Party of India (ML)- Liberation
Revolutionary Socialist Party
All India Forward Bloc
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist)

November 22, 2017


Press Statement

The Left parties -- the Communist Party of India  (Marxist), Communist
Party of India, Communist Party of India (ML)- Liberation, Revolutionary
Socialist Party,  All India Forward Bloc and the Socialist Unity Centre of
India (Communist) have issued the following statement:

Observe 25th Anniversary
of Demolition of Babri Masjid on December 6, 2017


The wilful demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 remains in
the historic calendar of independent India as the Black Sunday. This
brazen act, accomplished under the direct gaze of the authorities and law
enforcing agencies under a Congress central government and a complicit BJP
government in Uttar Pradesh, remains the severest of attacks on the
secular democratic foundations of the modern Indian republic. It
highlighted the reality that far from consolidating the modern republic
there are rabid forces who are determined to destroy its very foundations
and to bring in an autocratic, rabidly intolerant, fascistic “Hindu
rashtra” which is the RSS’s ideological project.

RSS sponsored Hindutva private armies led by BJP leaders perpetrated the
Babri demolition then – and today such private armies, emboldened and
patronised by the BJP in power, are acting like a law unto themselves. The
gau rakshaks of today are on a rampage, attacking dalits and Muslims over
fabricated allegations of cow slaughter. Moral policing squads are
prescribing what our youth should wear, what they should eat, or whom they
should befriend. Instead of upholding the law of the land and proscribing
such private armies, senior BJP leaders, including Ministers in the
Central and various State Governments have openly endorsed, patronised,
and promoted such private armies and rationalised or even celebrated their
violent actions.

Though a quarter of a century has passed since this blot on India’s
secular democracy, no action has been taken till now against the
organisers and perpetrators of the demolition who have brazenly violated
the law of the land and irreversibly damaged India’s secular democratic
foundations. Democracy-loving people in India will never forget this
injustice and will fight till its perpetrators are brought to justice.

December 6 is also the death anniversary of Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, the
Chairman of the drafting Committee which gave independent India its
Constitution. The Left parties will observe this day by mounting a
campaign against the intensification of the assaults on dalits across the
country and on the secular democratic values of our Constitution by the
communal forces. This assault must be resisted and defeated through
popular mobilisation and struggles to defend the secular democratic
principles, our composite culture and resist every attempt to divide
people on communal lines.

The Left parties call upon all their units in the country to observe
December 6 as a Black Day and to strengthen in the current context the
struggle against communal polarisation being patronised and encouraged by
the central as well as many BJP led state governments.

The form of protest actions in various states will be decided by our
respective state level units.






(Hari Singh Kang)
For CPI(M) Central Committee Office