By TCN News,
Hyderabad: On the occasion of 23rd anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee urged the people of India to understand this ‘Black Day’ in the context ongoing debate on intolerance in our country.
“At present when the whole nation is experiencing a serious debate on the intolerance, December 6 comes as a horrifying reminder that present bigotry is the result of collective silence of Indian intellectual society on Congress government’s complicity in allowing Rath Yatra and subsequent demolition of Babri Masjid,” CLMC said in a statement.
Fact is Ramjanmabhoomi movement just doesn’t gave rise to Hindutva leaders like LK Advani or MM Joshi but also to current Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was than in charge of logistic of the Rath Yatra, CLMC noted.
“Today when that hateful movement continues to stifle secularism and democracy in this country we are suddenly becoming alarmed. The fact is the conscious silence of our pluralistic society on Babari Masjid demolition has a complicity in the rise of Hindutva hatred and intolerance in this country,” CLMC General Secretary Lateef Mohd Khan said.
He termed the demolition of Babri Masjid a “blot on Indian democracy and secularism”. “Even after 23 years, the perpetrators of the demolition and subsequent targeted killing Muslims enjoyed High government offices. While Government was adamant to hang Yakub Memon but criminals like Bal Thackrey got a state funeral. Reports of Librehan commission and Sri Krishna Commission now lie in dust at some government office,” CLMC said.
Already decades have been passed away, thousands of people lost their lives, communal hatred reached to its peak. Communal and fascist elements are dividing the country and spreading hatred, and exploiting the situation for their own narrow political gains.
It has become a common practice during every election that without the Mandir-Masjid issue there is no political cannon fodder for some political parties. This issue is taken up for narrow vote bank politics and people on religious lines are polarized. Due to this the real issues of our society is neither discussed nor addressed.
CLMC noted that the Supreme Court and Indian society should take a note of ‘justice delayed is justice denied’ before it’s too late and urged the people to take pledge “to crush the seeds of intolerance and communal hatred sowed in this country” on December 6, 1992.