By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Khudai Khidmatgar, NAPM, Sadbhav Mission, Asha Parivar and Socialist party jointly organized a peace prayer and candle vigil at Rajghat in New Delhi in solidarity with a Muslim youth Mohsin Shaikh from Pune who succumbed to his injuries after he was lynched to death by assailants belonging to Hindu Rashtra Sena.
Mohsin Shaikh was an IT manager from Solapur, residing in Pune. Hindu Rashtra Sena is an outfit having radical Hindutva views and works closely with other groups. This killing was allegedly an aftermath of the derogatory morphed images of Shivaji and others that were circulated on social networking sites.
Lynching of an innocent Muslim youth owing to his religious identity amounts to hate crime. This violence by Hindu Rashtra Sena and like organizations with such repelling impunity was strongly condemned by Khudai Khidmatgar. With the coming to power of the new government at the center, the right wing organizations are emboldened to intensify violence and polarize communities, activists noted.
Khudai Khidmatgar National Leader Faisal Khan, Sadbhav Mission President, Prof Tripathy, Maduresh Kumar from NAPM and others issued a joint- statement on the occasion:
“There is a threat to security and safety of the all vulnerable groups and particularly religious minorities. Irrespective of which party comes to power or its ideological view, it is the primary duty of the State to protect the life and property of every citizen irrespective of their religion as has been embodied in the Constitution. We demand strict and prompt investigation by the police and urge them to bring the culprits to justice.”