By Sayema Sahar,
Dear Fellow Citizens,
The whistle blower cop of Gujarat, Sanjiv Bhatt has written to the President of India to appoint an Inquiry Commission to probe the role and conduct of Chief Minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 pogrom against the Muslim minority in Gujarat.
As concerned and patriotic citizens of India who recognize the fatally crucial importance of secularism as a constitutional and administrative principle, we are highly aggrieved by the state of affairs in Gujarat.
The Gujarat genocide of 2002 resulted in killing of nearly 2000 innocent citizens, mostly from India’s major minority community. As concerned citizens of India we are really perturbed at the subsequent pervasive subversion of government machinery to sabotage justice delivery to riot victims.
Coming days are more challenging for India as we need to see whether the perpetrators of crime will be punished as per law of the land or will they use this opportunity to take power in their own hands in the name of people’s verdict by creating hysterical situation and total polarization along religious lines.
The very idea of India is under threat…and this should concern every conscious and patriotic citizen of India.
Let’s come together and make an impact! Let’s sign this petition, let’s try to be the change we want to see!
It is extremely painful to see the indifference in our community, though the community that suffered the most in Gujarat is ours.
People who are fighting for the rights of Muslims in Gujarat are all non Muslims ironically.
My request to the readers is to come forward, come together and raise your voice against the injustice being done with the Muslims in Gujarat, so that it does not get repeated anywhere in the country.
Please visit this page to sign the petition addressed to the President of India
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/petition-addressed-to-her-excellency-the-president/signatures/page/17
(The writer is a Delhi-based journalist, can be contacted on [email protected])