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New Delhi: Today Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) organized street demonstrations across the country, in all assembly constituencies and districts of 14 states condemning the heinous brutal lynchings of innocent Muslims and Dalits by the so called Gau-rakshaks.
“The cow-vigilantism which has gained momentum since the BJP took over the reigns of power at the center and the Modi’s mere statements and silence of the state governments headed by BJP have only encouraged the cow-vigilantes to spread their terror with all impunity,” said the press statement from SDPI.
Previously SDPI President A Sayeed had announced a national campaign between August 1 and August 25, 2017, on 1st of August at Jaipur. And since the day, the party leadership in 14 states have been organizing massive rallies, public meetings, get-togethers, corner meetings, poster pasting and flyer distribution.
SDPI’s street demonstrations were organized with the slogan “Come out of Home”. The leadership of the party had scheduled massive human chains and street demonstration in all districts of all the states in which the party has a presence. The party cadres carried placards with the slogan “people’s solidarity to resist and save the nation from becoming lynch Rashtra”, on to the main streets of the taluks, towns, cities, and metros.
A Sayeed addressed the large gathering at the historic Jama Masjid in New Delhi. In his address, Sayeed urged Muslims and Dalits that their security is in their own hands and they must be conscious of it.
Sayeed said, “Muslims and Dalits must perceive themselves that their security is now in their own hands. They have to come out with free hands and free mind to take over the mission of self-protection. Nobody else will come to protect them. They have to identify their leaders on the parameters of this struggle for saving life, rights, and dignity.”
The states which witnessed SDPI’s protest include Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The party cadres visited door-to-door, organized corner meetings and exerted efforts to involve common people to raise voice against the atrocious panic spread in the society due to the terror dispersed widely by the cow-vigilantes, claimed the statement.
On the concluding day of the campaign, the party leadership submitted thousands of signatures over an online petition to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) appealing the authority to direct the government to take measures to curb the dreadful cow vigilantism which is destroying our society.