By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Muslim organisations and other secular minded groups organised symbolic protest march on the 23rd anniversary of the demolition of the Babri mosque on Sunday. The day is mourned as ‘Black Day’ in the history of India’s democracy by Muslims and other secular minded people while the Hindutva groups regard is ‘Victory Day’.
Karsevaks led by Hindutva groups, including RSS, Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and other such organisations had demolished the historical Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, Faizabad on December 6, 1992.
In the national capital, a joint protest march was organised from Mandi house to Jantar Mantar by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, Lokraj Sangathan, APCR, SIO, all the Communist parties, besides a number of secular groups who too extended their support. Vice President (Naib-Ameer) of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Nusrat Ali, Mushawrat President Zafarul Islam Khan, Tasleem Rehmani, Kavita Krishnan of CPIML, AD Raja of CPI among others had assembled to register their protest and remanded that justice has long been alluding and the cases pertaining to this blot on our democracy must be brought to logical conclusion.
Similar protests were organised by different groups across the country from Assam to Mumbai, in Kerala, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, among others.
The Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) Maulana Syed Jalaluddin Umari while addressing the media in the monthly press conference organized by Jamaat at its headquarters earlier demanded that those guilty of Babri Masjid demolition should be punished.
Delhi unit of All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) organised a candle march in Batla House, a Muslim dominated locality in Delhi near central university of Jamia Millia Islamia. MIM member Mohd. Afzal Khan said, “Babri Masjid demolition and Gujarat massacre have left deep scars on Muslim psyche and unfortunately no concrete step has been taken by the Indian Government to heal this wound and condense the pain”.
“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,” General Secretary of Hyderabad Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee, Lateef Mohd Khan said.
Popular Front of India, Social Democratic Party, IUML and several other Muslim bodies organised protest marches in other parts of the country.