[Marxistindia] December 1: All India Protest against Attacks on Minorities

[news from the cpi(m)]

November 15, 2021
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
December 1: All India Protest against Attacks on Minorities
 
The Polit Bureau expresses its grave concern at the growing attacks against
minority communities - Christian and Muslim - by organisations affiliated to
the sangh parivar.  The recent exposures in the internal documents of social
media platform - Facebook - also underline how BJP leaders have promoted
highly communal messaging, provoking violence in many instances.  Not only
do the perpetrators of such communal actions enjoy immunity from the law,
instead of protecting the victims, the administration in many BJP-ruled
states punishes the victims and those who support them with false cases and
arrests under draconian clauses.  
 
Recent reports by human rights groups have recorded 300 attacks on Christian
communities and places of their religious worships within the first nine
months in 2021.  Many of the victims belong to adivasi and dalit
communities.  Prayer meetings are being regularly prevented and participants
beaten in the name of preventing conversions.  
 
Members of the Muslim minority are targeted and there are continuing cases
of lynching, police killings, false arrests and mob violence against them in
the name of `cow protection' and `love jihad'.  The most recent example has
been in Tripura, where VHP hoodlums attacked minority communities, including
vandalizing some mosques.  Those reporting these attacks have been booked
under UAPA. Another example is the prevention of the right to offer prayers,
which have been curtailed in Gurgaon, part of the National Capital Region.
Muslim street vendors in some parts of Madhya Pradesh have been threatened
and disallowed from pursuing their livelihood. In Assam, the poor peasant
families cultivating land for decades were brutally evicted only because
they belong to Muslim minority.  In Uttar Pradesh, the use of NSA against
Muslims have become common place.  
 
These attacks on minorities constitute an attack on the Constitution of
India.  The CPI(M) calls upon all its units to observe December 1 as a day
of protest against attacks on religious minorities and their Constitutional
rights.  
 
 
 
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