By TwoCircles.net, Staff Reporter
Hyderabad: Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee (CLMC), a Hyderabad-based civil rights group has expressed its deep concern over growing attacks on the Muslim community in India. It also criticised the lack of action taken by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) with respect to these crimes.
“These systematic attacks and propaganda of hatred have increased after Narendra Modi-led BJP government came into power. This government has given a free hand to the Hindutva fascist forces. The main reason behind these attacks is the silence of Prime Minister Modi and his bonhomie towards the Hindutva Fascist forces led by the RSS, where he belongs to,” CLMC said in a statement.
“There are only some incidents which are reported in the media but there are many more horrifying incidents in the rural hinterlands which are conveniently sidelined by the mainstream media. The current situation is so drastic that the whole community is feeling insecure,” the statement added.
The rights group further said that the Muslim community is compelled to ponder over as to what is their future in this country. “Whether they possess the fundamental guaranteed right to life, or if they have been reduced to a second-grade citizen without any basic constitutional rights are questions tharisees in their minds. The sense of insecurity and threat is only due to the present government’s promotion of Hindutva and its culture in the name of ‘Nationalism’.”
The committee has castigated role of National Human Rights Commission for not taken the cognizance of these violent incidents.
“We strongly believe that NHRC’s complicit silence on these inhuman acts is a serious matter. NHRC, by neither issuing notice to the concerned state government nor to the central government, and not calling for any report, is undoing its mandate of acting as a watchdog of human rights violations in this country,” it said.
The committee has asked the Chairman of National Human Rights Commission to uphold the ideals of human rights protection and intervene into this gross situation which is going from bad to worse and to protect the life and liberty of the Muslims in India.