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  • Dharma Sansad: Left outfits protest against attacks on minorities

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: Thousands of people, owing allegiance to the CPI(ML) Liberation, the AISA, and the AICCTU, on Monday staged a demonstration outside the Uttarakhand Bhawan, here, against the hate speech made recently against the people of the minority community.

    The protesters demanded the arrest of the people, who were allegedly involved in making inflammatory speeches and instigating the people to target the minority people, and the immediate resignation of the Uttarakhand chief minister.

    Dipankar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation, while addressing the protesters, said that those far-right individuals and organizations, backed by BJP, are playing communal card to divide the nation.

    Equating the Dharma-Sansad- that was organized from December 17 to 20 in Utarrakhand with Nazi Germany’s ‘Final Solution’, Bhattacharya said: ” The Uttarakhand hate speech assembly that called upon the people for the genocide of Muslim community is similar to the act of Nazi German’s  ‘Final Solution’. 

    He underscored the need for the democratic forces to come together to ensure that fascist forces are thrown out of power.

    He said that from Haridwar to Delhi and Raipur to Udupi, the Sangh- brigade is bent upon instigating communal violence ahead of the coming state elections. He made a call to the people of the country to foil the nefarious designs.

    The Left-associated people protesting outside the Uttarakhand Bhawan also sought the resignation of Uttarakhand CM taking moral responsibility for what happened at the Dharma-Sansad against a particular community.

    N Sai Balaji-president of the All India Students Association (AISA) demanded the immediate arrest of all the hate-mongers. He lambasted the BJP government for maintaining stony silence over such inflammatory calls against a particular community at an assembly organized as Dharma-Sansad.

  • Revoke Padmashri for Kangana Ranaut: CPIML’s Dipankar

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: General secretary of CPIML Liberation Dipankar Bhattacharyya on Saturday demanded from the government to revoke the Padma Shri Award given to Bollywood actor Kangna Ranaut , who has courted a controversy through a statement on India’s freedom.

    “Immediately after receiving the Padma Shri Award, actor and prominent pro-BJP public figure Kangana Ranaut declared that what the country won in 1947 was mere alms, and that true freedom only came in 2014 with Narendra Modi being elected Prime Minister”, Bhattacharya said, adding that her comment like that had hurt patriotic sentiment of everyone.

    He said that Kangana Ranaut’s statement was very much in line with the sentiments expressed by the RSS during the freedom movement, in the immediate wake of independence, and ever since. 

    “The RSS’ founding ideologue Golwalkar declared that the martyrs of the freedom struggle were “failures” and should not be held up as ideals. He also said that the anti-British orientation of the freedom struggle was “disastrous”, he said.

    “For Kangana Ranaut, it seems that freedom from colonial British rule is a matter of contempt. Freedom, she implies, is the freedom to lynch, to express and propagate bigotry and obscurantism, and to violently impose the RSS code of ideas, diet, dress, religion, and conduct onto the whole of India”, he taunted at Bollywood actor Kangna Ranaut.

    “The least that the government must do is to revoke the Padma Shri awarded to Kangana Ranaut. The government cannot simultaneously be claiming to celebrate “Amrit Mahotsav” of Independence while promoting and honouring people who insult India’s freedom movement and freedom”, Dipankar Bhattacharya , demanded.