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Draft Resolution read out at the Janhastakshep meeting held on
7th April 2017 at Gandhi Peace Foundation, Delhi on the topic:India at the Precipice: Resisting Fascist
Onslaught on Peoples Movements
The
recent assembly election results, especially in Uttar Pradesh, have cast a pall
of gloom among vast sections of society. It has heightened the anxieties as to
the direction in which India is headed, and rightly so, because Fascism, which
still existed in the realm of possibility, now appears imminent, and the signs
of this imminence are too obtrusive to ignore. The reinvigoration of
cow-vigilantism that had ebbed a little in between is just one among many. Even
as this meeting is taking place, the script of a vigorous attack on
institutions of higher learning is unfolding by the day in order to render them
servile to the Hindutva project.
Mr
Modi seems to have swallowed his own words against the Aadhaar project not only
to embrace the project but also drive it in a manner as to keep an entire
population under watch. Such shameless opportunism is but a small thing for bigots
of Hindutva brand. The grand design is to keep an entire population under watch
out of fear for opposition that is bound to emerge sooner than later.
One
can only speculate about the consequences for peoples’ movements and their
resistance that the alchemy of Aadhaar and UAPA (Unlawful Activities Prevention
Act) is likely to produce. If the case of Prof Sai Baba, Hem Mishra and others and
thousands of ordinary tribal people, dalits etc. who have been incarcerated in
false cases in the name of fighting extremism, along with false implication of
Muslims in terror cases is anything to go by then UAPA is headed to become the
new language of criminal jurisprudence vis-à-vis political movements and
activists. This however is not to undermine the atrocities being committed by
the Indian security forces under the cover of laws such as the AFSPA (Armed
Forces Special Powers Act).
The
judgment that steals the thunder is the one concerning Maruti workers, where in
as many as 13 members of leadership have been handed down a life sentence for an
alleged crime despite a profound lack of evidence. What is most damning is the
silence and lack of any effective mobilization against the judgment on part of
all major ruling class parties on this issue. This scheme of things only tells
that the government’s ‘Make in India’ dream project is going to be implemented
on the back of brutal repression of workers by strangulating and finishing off
all labor laws.
In
the recent past there has been a string of cases in which the Muslim youth who
had been implicated in terror cases have been found to be innocent. However,
these judgments have come when the prime of the youth of these men has already
been wasted in jails. It is surprising that in none of these judgments the
judicial officers found it suitable to initiate action against the guilty
officers of the security agencies who falsely implicated these Muslim youth in
first place. Such misdoings cannot but create a sense of further alienation
among the minorities in the country.
This
meeting takes a very serious view of these developments and demands:
1.
Prof Sai Baba and others who have been falsely
implicated in terror cases under sections of UAPA, as also other political
prisoners incarcerated likewise, should be immediately freed from jail and the
case against them be withdrawn.
2.
This gathering also demands repealing of
draconian laws such as the UAPA and AFSPA.
3.
Severe action as per law should be initiated
against police officers responsible for falsely implicating the Muslim youth who
have been recently exonerated in terror cases. The government should provide
adequate compensation to these men and make arrangements for safeguarding their
lives and livelihoods.
4.
The preposterous punishment meted out to the
Maruti workers along with the case against them should be immediately
withdrawn. The situation in the Maruti plant arose out of gross violation of
labor laws by the Maruti management. Appropriate action should be taken against
the management for this violation and the government should ensure that the
workers are given their due by the company’s management. All the dismissed
Maruti employees should be reinstated.
5.
The gathering demands that the undemocratic and
authoritarian attack launched on the institutions of higher learning to
implement the grand project of ‘Saffronizing Education’ should be stopped
forthwith. There should be an increase in the number of permanent teachers in
these institutions and the drastic cut in intake into these institutions should
be withdrawn forthwith. There should also be rolling back of the privatization
and commercialization of higher education in the country.
6.
We condemn the Aadhaar project which has emerged
as the newest threat to individual freedom and civil liberties, and demand that
the whole project be shelved altogether.
This
gathering calls upon people at large to see and understand the imminent threat
of fascism in the country and come out in large numbers to safeguard democratic
rights and civil liberties in India.
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