By TCN News
Mumbai : Addressing a press conference at Marathi Patrakar Sangh today, a clutch of major minority NGOs expressed their dismay with the anti-Muslim and anti-Dalits mob-rule in parts of India. Representatives from the NGOs were angry over Central and some state governments for their failure in maintaining law and order, and saving innocent human lives from mob-killing, lynching and atrocities.
Press statement passed in the meet said, “We feel, India is going down towards dark age. India has witnessed a spate of medieval-style lynchings in the last two and half years, notably among Mohammad Akhlaq’s murder in Dadri of UP, Farid Khan’s mob-killing in Dimapur of Nagaland in 2015, Pehlu Khan’s lynching in Alwar of Rajasthan and lynching of two men in Assam last month.”
It further said, “Seven men were brutally killed in two separate incidents by a mob in a complete breakdown of law and order in Jharkhand on May 18 whereas two other were killed on May 12 and May 13, making the total mob-killed up to 9 in the past week alone in Jharkhand.”
NGOs accused governments of showing apathy towards these crimes and said, “Muslims, Dalits and other minority community members are feeling extremely insecure owing to present hooliganism of politically backed notorious groups and government’s apathy towards their crimes. The whole nation is getting suffocated, we cannot remain silent because this surely is harming our country.”
It further said, “The radical and extremist goons in any name, be it so-called ‘cow vigilance’ or ‘anti-romeo’ squads who take law in their hands are disgusting criminals, anti-national and not less than terror and Maoist groups in their crimes.
Mob justice and murder as a public spectacle has become the norm for the underrepresented and socially-backward communities in present India.”
Statement also accounts violence and riot-like situation in western part of Uttar Pradesh and said, “In various places of UP, such as ones in Saharanpur and Aligarh recently, and in other states of India, Dalits are being routinely targeted, killed and humiliated. Samari Kasabi, a 55 year old grandmother, from Dokawaya village in Chhattisgarh, was stripped naked, beaten to death and her body burned by a mob, apparently because her Christian faith was disturbing the peace in her village.”
They demanded action from the Modi government and said, “It is time that Modi-led government must take swift and decisive action against such crimes before it is too late. Ironically most of these aforementioned incidences have taken place in states being ruled by BJP, which came in power with the ‘Good Governance’ and ‘Sabka Sath-Sabka Vikas’ slogans.”
They said, “We are here crying for the fundamental right of our fellow citizens – Right to Live.”
Among those who addressed the Press Meet were Mahmood Daryabadi, general secretary All India Ulama Council; M. Burhanuddin Qasmi, director Markazul Maarif Education & Research Centr; Farid Shaikh, president Mumbai Aman Committee; Aslam Ghazi, secretary Maharashtra unit of Jamat-e Islami Hind; Azimuddin, president Movement for Human Welfare; Ahmad Ali Abidi, principal Hawza-e Ilmia Najafi House; Ejaz Khashmiri, imam Handiwali Masjid; Aslam Saiyaad, imam Masjid-e Ahle Hadith Mominpura.