Tuesday, October 25, 2011
दिवाली मुबारक
दोस्तों..... दिवाली मनाना ......बड़ी धूम से मनाना , लेकिन ये याद रखना के दुनिया से अँधेरा अभी हटा नहीं ......इन्साफ , अमन और प्यार की रौशनी से इस अँधेरे को ख़तम करने की कोशिश करना ........तो दिवाली की मज़ा और भी दुगना हो जायेगा ..........दिवाली मुबारक...
Thursday, October 20, 2011
The Yatra No One Talked About
By Syed Ali Mujtaba
18 October, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Much hullabaloo was made of Anna Hazare’s fast against anti corruption, so was about Narender Modi’s fast for communal harmony. LK Advani yatra too has attracted a great deal of attention, has anyone heard about the communal harmony Yatra (travel) that concluded in New Delhi on October 16, 2011. I guess very few.
It’s unfortunate that such meaningful and positive development in the country is not being reported by the media which in turn prefers to feed the staple of news that may loosely called infotainment.
Its long well established that Indian media is bourgeoisie in character but now what is becoming apparent is the total lack of moral and ethical values in media representation. If this gradual decline goes unabated the designers of national character may be guilty of acts beyond our comprehension.
Leaving this thought for an introspection, let me talk about this secular yatra that began from the pious town of Ayodhya on October 11 and concluded at the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi on October 16.
This was the fourth edition of this yatra and persons from various parts of the country led this march to the national capital cherishing the ideal of peaceful existence. Whether these people were successful in their mission is difficult to profess, but the fact remains that they strived to bridging the communal divide in our country, is laudable indeed.
The yatra was led by Ayodhya’s famous mahant of Ayodhya Yugal Kishor Shastri who has been tirelessly working for communal harmony in India. Last year, he took out a similar yatra among various communities from Ayodhya to Sewagram in Wardha.
I had the privilege of interviewing Mr Shastri at an interfaith conference in New Delhi last year where he narrated to me how he sheltered the fleeing Muslims being chased by the Hindutva goons during the demolition of Babari mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. “I have buried many Muslim bodies with my own hand in that communal madness,” said the inconcipious mahant, in a whispering tone. He brings out a magazine Ayodhya ki Awaz to promote the values of peace and harmony.
Talking to Yugal Kishor Shastri, I wondered, how some swamy's and mahant's become national figures and amass huge wealth and followers in this country, while those who are genuinely godly persons, remain a naked fakir like Mr Shastri. Again, I leave this thought left for self introspection.
The communal harmony yatra started from Ayodhya on 11th October, 2011. It went to Faizabad and from there reached Lucknow on 12th October, Sitapur on October 13, Shahjahanpur on October 15, spent the night at Moradabad and arrived at Delhi in the morning of October 16, covering a distance of 490 kilometres by road.
There were twenty members in this yartra and number of programmes of mass contact were organized all along the travel route. It included conferences, street plays and press meets and contacting people, especially the youth.
The aim of the yatra was to propagate the idea of shared culture heritage among different communities. It was to tell that the shared history of living together among different communities is of much longer then the momentary phases of conflict and disharmony.
The starting point of the yatra was the temple town of Ayodhya, where the Hindu- Muslim conflict over a disputed mosque has sown the seeds of communal hatred in the country. The place was chosen because it was Ayodhya where five religions; Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism have their roots and all existed side by side.
The city once was an oasis of communal coexistence and there was perfect harmony among the communities living there. The raking up the issue of Ramjanamboohmi was a deliberate attempt to destroy this plural culture of Ayodhya and making that as a symbol, it has rattled the secular character of the country.
Even more than twenty years to that event, the seeds of hatred that has sown around this mosque/temple controversy, has poisoned the relationship among the communities so much so that it is hard break free from that cluttered mindset.
The yatra was taken out to combat such preachers of hate and to propagate the idea of shared cultural history. The purpose of the yatra was to resist the forces of fascism, communalism and untouchability. It was to promote idea of peace, unity and brotherhood.
All along during the yatra, programmes of mass contact were held where it was stressed that the country is in the dire need of communal harmony. Th development and progress of the country is only possible when an atmosphere of love and harmony is created and this could be done by knitting the people together.
The yatra concluded at the hospice of Hazrat Nizamuddin, a towering sufi saint of India, whose most popular phrase was “ do not give me scissor because it cuts, give me needle because it stitches.”
The members of the yatra later paid tribute to the soul of Mahatma Gandhi at the Rajghat in New Delhi. The prayed for the communal peace and harmony in the country at the monument of the father of the nation, who fell to the bullets of lunatic Hindu chauvinist.
A conference on communal harmony was organized at the Gandhi Samriti at Rajghat where most of the speakers stressed on ways and means to promote communal harmony in India. Some prominent speakers were; Asghar Ali Engineer, Lalit Kumar, Haneef Shastri, Zafarul-Islam Khan, Mazher Hussain, Saroj Khan Choudhry, Deepak Singh and Muhammad Afzal.
Communalism Combat (Teesta Sitalvad), Viswa Yuva Sadbhavana Parishad (Seshnath Dubey), Asha Parivar ( Sandeep Pandey), Ayodhya ki Awaz (Yugal Kishor Saran Shastri), Milli Gazzete (Zafarul Islam Khan), Sarvdharam Sadbhav Kendra Trust (Zafar Saifullah), Confederation of Voluntary Association-Cova (Mazher Hussain), Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (Mohammad Ahmad), Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan (Kumar Prashant), Centre for study of Society and Secularism-CCSS (Asghar Ali Engineer) and Centre for Human Rights and Social Welfare (Saroj Khan Choudhry) were some of the prominent organizations associated with this yatra.
India is perhaps the only country in the world where there is mix of several religious identities existing side by side. There is a general desire among various communities to lead a life of peaceful coexistence eve though attempts have been made regular intervals to break this blissful peace. The resilience of the Indian society has always discarded such narrow outlook and have cherished the ideal that all religion have equal place and their followers must live in perfect harmony.
It wont be out of context to say that in our country there exists two diametrically opposite forces at work. One, those who are working to destroying the communal amity and the other, working relentlessly to bridge the communal.
The communal harmony yatra was an attempt to isolate the preachers of hate and to promote the idea to live in peace. It was also an effort to initiate the process of interfaith dialogue to resolve all the outstanding issues in a peaceful manner.
One has to salute those people who have taken such an initiative, and it would be a service to the nation to highlight such a noble cause. One wish that more and more people join in such initiative and this humble beginning may become a movement soon.
Syed Ali Mujtaba is a journalist based in Chennai. He can be contacted at syedalimujtaba@yahoo.com
18 October, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Much hullabaloo was made of Anna Hazare’s fast against anti corruption, so was about Narender Modi’s fast for communal harmony. LK Advani yatra too has attracted a great deal of attention, has anyone heard about the communal harmony Yatra (travel) that concluded in New Delhi on October 16, 2011. I guess very few.
It’s unfortunate that such meaningful and positive development in the country is not being reported by the media which in turn prefers to feed the staple of news that may loosely called infotainment.
Its long well established that Indian media is bourgeoisie in character but now what is becoming apparent is the total lack of moral and ethical values in media representation. If this gradual decline goes unabated the designers of national character may be guilty of acts beyond our comprehension.
Leaving this thought for an introspection, let me talk about this secular yatra that began from the pious town of Ayodhya on October 11 and concluded at the Dargah of Hazrat Nizamuddin in New Delhi on October 16.
This was the fourth edition of this yatra and persons from various parts of the country led this march to the national capital cherishing the ideal of peaceful existence. Whether these people were successful in their mission is difficult to profess, but the fact remains that they strived to bridging the communal divide in our country, is laudable indeed.
The yatra was led by Ayodhya’s famous mahant of Ayodhya Yugal Kishor Shastri who has been tirelessly working for communal harmony in India. Last year, he took out a similar yatra among various communities from Ayodhya to Sewagram in Wardha.
I had the privilege of interviewing Mr Shastri at an interfaith conference in New Delhi last year where he narrated to me how he sheltered the fleeing Muslims being chased by the Hindutva goons during the demolition of Babari mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992. “I have buried many Muslim bodies with my own hand in that communal madness,” said the inconcipious mahant, in a whispering tone. He brings out a magazine Ayodhya ki Awaz to promote the values of peace and harmony.
Talking to Yugal Kishor Shastri, I wondered, how some swamy's and mahant's become national figures and amass huge wealth and followers in this country, while those who are genuinely godly persons, remain a naked fakir like Mr Shastri. Again, I leave this thought left for self introspection.
The communal harmony yatra started from Ayodhya on 11th October, 2011. It went to Faizabad and from there reached Lucknow on 12th October, Sitapur on October 13, Shahjahanpur on October 15, spent the night at Moradabad and arrived at Delhi in the morning of October 16, covering a distance of 490 kilometres by road.
There were twenty members in this yartra and number of programmes of mass contact were organized all along the travel route. It included conferences, street plays and press meets and contacting people, especially the youth.
The aim of the yatra was to propagate the idea of shared culture heritage among different communities. It was to tell that the shared history of living together among different communities is of much longer then the momentary phases of conflict and disharmony.
The starting point of the yatra was the temple town of Ayodhya, where the Hindu- Muslim conflict over a disputed mosque has sown the seeds of communal hatred in the country. The place was chosen because it was Ayodhya where five religions; Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism have their roots and all existed side by side.
The city once was an oasis of communal coexistence and there was perfect harmony among the communities living there. The raking up the issue of Ramjanamboohmi was a deliberate attempt to destroy this plural culture of Ayodhya and making that as a symbol, it has rattled the secular character of the country.
Even more than twenty years to that event, the seeds of hatred that has sown around this mosque/temple controversy, has poisoned the relationship among the communities so much so that it is hard break free from that cluttered mindset.
The yatra was taken out to combat such preachers of hate and to propagate the idea of shared cultural history. The purpose of the yatra was to resist the forces of fascism, communalism and untouchability. It was to promote idea of peace, unity and brotherhood.
All along during the yatra, programmes of mass contact were held where it was stressed that the country is in the dire need of communal harmony. Th development and progress of the country is only possible when an atmosphere of love and harmony is created and this could be done by knitting the people together.
The yatra concluded at the hospice of Hazrat Nizamuddin, a towering sufi saint of India, whose most popular phrase was “ do not give me scissor because it cuts, give me needle because it stitches.”
The members of the yatra later paid tribute to the soul of Mahatma Gandhi at the Rajghat in New Delhi. The prayed for the communal peace and harmony in the country at the monument of the father of the nation, who fell to the bullets of lunatic Hindu chauvinist.
A conference on communal harmony was organized at the Gandhi Samriti at Rajghat where most of the speakers stressed on ways and means to promote communal harmony in India. Some prominent speakers were; Asghar Ali Engineer, Lalit Kumar, Haneef Shastri, Zafarul-Islam Khan, Mazher Hussain, Saroj Khan Choudhry, Deepak Singh and Muhammad Afzal.
Communalism Combat (Teesta Sitalvad), Viswa Yuva Sadbhavana Parishad (Seshnath Dubey), Asha Parivar ( Sandeep Pandey), Ayodhya ki Awaz (Yugal Kishor Saran Shastri), Milli Gazzete (Zafarul Islam Khan), Sarvdharam Sadbhav Kendra Trust (Zafar Saifullah), Confederation of Voluntary Association-Cova (Mazher Hussain), Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (Mohammad Ahmad), Rashtriya Yuva Sangathan (Kumar Prashant), Centre for study of Society and Secularism-CCSS (Asghar Ali Engineer) and Centre for Human Rights and Social Welfare (Saroj Khan Choudhry) were some of the prominent organizations associated with this yatra.
India is perhaps the only country in the world where there is mix of several religious identities existing side by side. There is a general desire among various communities to lead a life of peaceful coexistence eve though attempts have been made regular intervals to break this blissful peace. The resilience of the Indian society has always discarded such narrow outlook and have cherished the ideal that all religion have equal place and their followers must live in perfect harmony.
It wont be out of context to say that in our country there exists two diametrically opposite forces at work. One, those who are working to destroying the communal amity and the other, working relentlessly to bridge the communal.
The communal harmony yatra was an attempt to isolate the preachers of hate and to promote the idea to live in peace. It was also an effort to initiate the process of interfaith dialogue to resolve all the outstanding issues in a peaceful manner.
One has to salute those people who have taken such an initiative, and it would be a service to the nation to highlight such a noble cause. One wish that more and more people join in such initiative and this humble beginning may become a movement soon.
Syed Ali Mujtaba is a journalist based in Chennai. He can be contacted at syedalimujtaba@yahoo.com
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
25 lakh People declared in Mumbai as Below Poverty Line by Municipal Corporation
GHAR BACHAO GHAR BANAO ANDOLAN
c/o NAPM, Room No 29-30, Ist Floor, A Wing, haji Habib Building, Naigaon Cross Road, Dadar (E), Mumbai 14
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Press Release
25 lakh People declared in Mumbai as Below Poverty Line by Municipal Corporation.
Number of BPL families grows 18 times in 7 years.
Mumbai Municipal Corporation declares the BPL lists after 5 years due to a PIL filed in the High Court by slum dwellers.
After a Public Interest Litigation (27 of 2011) filed at Bombay High Court by Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan and slum activists Jammela Begum & Durgavati, BMC has now declared the result of the Below Poverty Line (BPL) survey carried out in the year 2005-06 during which 14,60,000 families were surveyed. According to the results of the survey, around 4,94,000 families have been declared as BPL, meaning around 25 lakh people in Mumbai are below poverty line. For Mumbai the below poverty line has been defined as a daily income of Rs 20 per day per person. This means that in Mumbai there are around 25 lakh people who are not even able to earn Rs 20 every day and thus they live on as low as this an amount every day.
It is worth mentioning that in the last survey carried out in the year 1998-99, 13600 people were declared as below poverty line. Thus in a short period of 7 years, the number of people who are below poverty line has grown by 18 times.
Municipal Corporation had carried out a survey in the year 2005-06 but till 2010 they had not declared the lists of the BPL. The repeated requests by the slum dwellers to declare the BPL list were not responded to by the Municipal Authorities and thus a PIL(27 of 2011) was filed by Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan and slum activists with the Bombay High Court. As a result the Municipal Corporation has now declared the BPL lists on its website. Adv Gayatri Singh & Adv Kranti had argued the case in the High Court before the Hon’ble Chief Justice on behalf of Ghar Bachao Ghar Banao Andolan and slum activists.
A high increase in the number of BPL families in Mumbai proves beyond doubt that the policies and the plans of the government is leading to further deterioration in the condition of the people. Rather than any improvement in the status of the poor, more and more families are being pushed in the poverty trap which is just a manifestation of the growing inequality for which the policies of the government are responsible. The growing threat on the lives, livelihoods and houses of the working class is directly leading to growing number of families that are poor.
A band-aid solution of poverty alleviation programmes and plans is not going to be of any use, until and unless the state and the civil society revisits and revises its development paradigm, which today is anti-people while favouring the corporates and the private developers.
Simpreet Singh, Jammela Begum, Durgavati, Santosh Thorat
gbgbandolan@gmail.com
Sunday, October 2, 2011
इसलिए मोदी हमारे समृद्ध मिडिल क्लास के सपनो का हीरो है !
By, Himanshu Kumar
"एक पुलिस वाले को किसकी बात माननी चाहिये" ?
संजीव भट्ट के मसले पर कल भारतीय जनता पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता श्री प्रकाश जावडेकर जी टी वी पर बोल रहे थे कि जो पुलिस अधिकारी मुख्य मंत्री के सामने सिर उठाये और इस तरह की अनुशासन हीनता करे तो उसे कैसे माफ़ किया जा सकता है ?
दो तीन सवाल ?
१-- अर्थात संजीव भट्ट को मुख्य मंत्री के सामने सिर उठाने के लिए सजा दी जा रही है ना कि उस मामले में जिसमे उन्हें अभी गिरफ्तार किया गया बताया जा रहा है !
२-- एक पुलिस अधिकारी को किसका अनुशासन मानना चाहिए ? भारतीय संविधान का ? या मुख्य मंत्री के किसी भी तरह के आदेश का ?
३--मान लीजिये एक मुख्यमंत्री किसी पुलिस अधिकारी को आदेश देता है कि मेरे राजनैतिक विरोधी को गोली मार दो ! और वो पुलिस अधिकारी मुख्यमंत्री का आदेश नहीं मानता है ,तो क्या ये अनुशासन हीनता है ?
भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता के अनुसार तो यह अनुशासन हीनता है और ऐसे पुलिस अधिकारी को जेल में डाल देना चाहिए !और उन्होंने संजीव भट्ट को जेल में डाल भी दिया है !
लेकिन आप चौंकिए मत ! यही भाजपा की घोषित संस्कृति है ! भाजपा जैसी विचारधारा वाली पार्टी का ये घोषित तरीका है कि यदि हम सत्ता में हैं तो सबको हमारे लिए काम करना होगा ! फिर चाहे वो अदालत हो , वकील हो पुलिस वाला हो , एन जी ओ हो या मीडिया हो !
थोड़ी देर के लिए संजीव भट्ट को भूल जाइये और अब आप अपनी याददाश्त पर थोडा सा जोर डालें! पिछले कुछ सालों में ये भगवा ब्रिगेड क्या कर रही है और क्या कह रही है ? ये कहते हैं कि" अदालत का फैसला कुछ भी आये होगा वही जो हमारी आस्था कहती है !" मतलब अदालत अगर हमारे मन मुताबिक फैसला नहीं देगी तो हम उसे भी नहीं मानेगे ! अनेको मामलो में इन्ही संघियों ने वकीलों पर इसलिए हमले किये क्योंकि उन वकीलों ने उन लोगों को कानूनी मदद देनी चाही जिन्हें भाजपाई नापसंद करते हैं !
और एक अंतरात्मा वाले पुलिस वाले पर ये हमला सिर्फ गुजरात में नहीं है ! भाजपा शासित सभी प्रदेशों में है! उदहारण के लिए २६ मार्च को दंतेवाडा में जब एक आदिवासी ऐ एस पी श्री मरावी को बुरी तरह पीटा गया और उनकी गाडी को तोड़ दिया गया ! क्योंकि वो एक जांच दल को उन गावों में ले जा रहे थे जिन्हें वहाँ की सरकार के निर्देश पर जला दिया गया था ! और उन पर ये हमला नक्सलियों ने नहीं किया बल्कि सरकार के वफादार " अनुशासित " पुलिस वालों ने ही किया ! और मजे की बात ये कि उन ऐ एस पी साहब की ऍफ़ आई आर भी नहीं लिखी गयी ! जब हम लोगों ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में ये मामला उठाया तब बेचारे अपनी ऍफ़ आई आर लिखवा पाए !कार्यवाही अभी भी नहीं हुई !
आप लोगों को याद रखना चाहिए भाजपा हिटलर को अपना आदर्श पुरुष मानती है ! और जिस दिन ये लोग पूर्ण बहुमत प्राप्त कर लेंगे उस दिन लोकतंत्र , संसद संविधान , सब भूल जाइएगा ! और कई नर संहारों के लिए अपने मन को तैयार कर लीजिये ! ये नर संहार नए आर्थिक सामाजिक सांस्कृतिक युग के लिए अनिवार्य है !क्योंकि इसमें कुछ ही लोगों का विकास किया जाता ! बाकी करोड़ों लोगों को तो मारना ही पड़ेगा ! इसलिए मोदी हमारे समृद्ध मिडिल क्लास के सपनो का हीरो है !
"एक पुलिस वाले को किसकी बात माननी चाहिये" ?
संजीव भट्ट के मसले पर कल भारतीय जनता पार्टी के राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता श्री प्रकाश जावडेकर जी टी वी पर बोल रहे थे कि जो पुलिस अधिकारी मुख्य मंत्री के सामने सिर उठाये और इस तरह की अनुशासन हीनता करे तो उसे कैसे माफ़ किया जा सकता है ?
दो तीन सवाल ?
१-- अर्थात संजीव भट्ट को मुख्य मंत्री के सामने सिर उठाने के लिए सजा दी जा रही है ना कि उस मामले में जिसमे उन्हें अभी गिरफ्तार किया गया बताया जा रहा है !
२-- एक पुलिस अधिकारी को किसका अनुशासन मानना चाहिए ? भारतीय संविधान का ? या मुख्य मंत्री के किसी भी तरह के आदेश का ?
३--मान लीजिये एक मुख्यमंत्री किसी पुलिस अधिकारी को आदेश देता है कि मेरे राजनैतिक विरोधी को गोली मार दो ! और वो पुलिस अधिकारी मुख्यमंत्री का आदेश नहीं मानता है ,तो क्या ये अनुशासन हीनता है ?
भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय प्रवक्ता के अनुसार तो यह अनुशासन हीनता है और ऐसे पुलिस अधिकारी को जेल में डाल देना चाहिए !और उन्होंने संजीव भट्ट को जेल में डाल भी दिया है !
लेकिन आप चौंकिए मत ! यही भाजपा की घोषित संस्कृति है ! भाजपा जैसी विचारधारा वाली पार्टी का ये घोषित तरीका है कि यदि हम सत्ता में हैं तो सबको हमारे लिए काम करना होगा ! फिर चाहे वो अदालत हो , वकील हो पुलिस वाला हो , एन जी ओ हो या मीडिया हो !
थोड़ी देर के लिए संजीव भट्ट को भूल जाइये और अब आप अपनी याददाश्त पर थोडा सा जोर डालें! पिछले कुछ सालों में ये भगवा ब्रिगेड क्या कर रही है और क्या कह रही है ? ये कहते हैं कि" अदालत का फैसला कुछ भी आये होगा वही जो हमारी आस्था कहती है !" मतलब अदालत अगर हमारे मन मुताबिक फैसला नहीं देगी तो हम उसे भी नहीं मानेगे ! अनेको मामलो में इन्ही संघियों ने वकीलों पर इसलिए हमले किये क्योंकि उन वकीलों ने उन लोगों को कानूनी मदद देनी चाही जिन्हें भाजपाई नापसंद करते हैं !
और एक अंतरात्मा वाले पुलिस वाले पर ये हमला सिर्फ गुजरात में नहीं है ! भाजपा शासित सभी प्रदेशों में है! उदहारण के लिए २६ मार्च को दंतेवाडा में जब एक आदिवासी ऐ एस पी श्री मरावी को बुरी तरह पीटा गया और उनकी गाडी को तोड़ दिया गया ! क्योंकि वो एक जांच दल को उन गावों में ले जा रहे थे जिन्हें वहाँ की सरकार के निर्देश पर जला दिया गया था ! और उन पर ये हमला नक्सलियों ने नहीं किया बल्कि सरकार के वफादार " अनुशासित " पुलिस वालों ने ही किया ! और मजे की बात ये कि उन ऐ एस पी साहब की ऍफ़ आई आर भी नहीं लिखी गयी ! जब हम लोगों ने सुप्रीम कोर्ट में ये मामला उठाया तब बेचारे अपनी ऍफ़ आई आर लिखवा पाए !कार्यवाही अभी भी नहीं हुई !
आप लोगों को याद रखना चाहिए भाजपा हिटलर को अपना आदर्श पुरुष मानती है ! और जिस दिन ये लोग पूर्ण बहुमत प्राप्त कर लेंगे उस दिन लोकतंत्र , संसद संविधान , सब भूल जाइएगा ! और कई नर संहारों के लिए अपने मन को तैयार कर लीजिये ! ये नर संहार नए आर्थिक सामाजिक सांस्कृतिक युग के लिए अनिवार्य है !क्योंकि इसमें कुछ ही लोगों का विकास किया जाता ! बाकी करोड़ों लोगों को तो मारना ही पड़ेगा ! इसलिए मोदी हमारे समृद्ध मिडिल क्लास के सपनो का हीरो है !
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Remembering.....Our Greatest Leader Mahatma Gandhi
प्यारे दोस्तों,
गाँधी जयन्ती के अवसर पर हम, भारत तथा दुनिया के महान नेताओ में से एक महात्मा गाँधी यानी हम सबके बापू को सलाम करते हैं ! उनसे प्रेरणा लेते है !
अब हम भारतीयों के लिए वक़्त आ गया है की हमसब लोग अपने आपसी मतभेद को भुलाकर, भारत के निर्माण के लीये कार्य करे, एक ऐसा भारत बनाये, जहा सब के लिए जगह हो , न्याय हो , शांति हो, खुदको विकसित करने के समान अवसर हो, जहा गरीब इन्सान को भी इज्ज़त मिले, सबको उचित शिक्षा और रोजगार मिले. एक ऐसा भारत जहा धर्म, जाती, लिंग, वंश के आधार पर भेदभाव न हो, जहा सब के लिए खुशहाली, लोग बिना डरे मज़े से रह सके हम ऐसा भारत बनाना चाहते हैं .
आज ज़रुरत है , हम गाधीजी, बाबासाहेब आंबेडकर, मौलाना आजाद , भगत सिंग, जैसे हमारे महान नेता को जीवन से उनके संघर्ष से प्रेरणा ले . और आपसी भेदभाव भुलाकर अपने देश को अंधकार से बचाए, भ्रस्टाचार, जातिवाद , धर्मान्धता , सामाजिक तथा आर्थिक न्याय के लिए , देश के गरीब से गरीब इंसान के अधिकार के लिए संघर्ष करे . ये में जो कुछ भी लिख रहा हु वो सिर्फ भाषण नहीं है. भाषण से कुछ नहीं होगा , हर एक नागरिक को अपना कर्तव्य पूरा करना होगा . देश आज भी खतरे में हैं......हमारे संविधान को बचाना है .....देश को बचाना है ....देश को बनाना है ........जय हिंद ....जय भारत .
आरिफ परवाज़
Citizens for Justice and Peace: PRESS RELEASE
Citizens for Justice and Peace
Sepember 30 2011
PRESS RELEASE
The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) strongly condemns the vinictive action of the Gujarat government in arresting Sanjeev Bhatt, senior IPS officer in an action that is nothing short of an attempt to intimidate an important witness in the Zakia Ahsan Jafri and CJP criminal complaint against chief minister Narendra Modi and 61 others. This action of the Gujarat police under the direct intructions of the state’s Home Minister—Narendra Modi amounts to tampering with evidence and direct intimidation of a key witness. It is also a cheap attempt to slur his character and standing.
Key issues need to be raised here. One that through his affidavit before the Hon’ble Supreme Court dated April 2011 he had testified to criminal and un-Constitutional instructions being issued by Modi at a late night meeting of 27.2.2002 the day of the Godhra incident. In his statements before the SC-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) he also gave documentary data about Modi’s abdication of responsibility on 28.2.2002 the day attacks on Gulberg Society and Naroda Patia in Ahmedabad were in full swing. Finally, and last but not the least in an affidavit filed before the High Court recently Shri Bhatt had even mentioned that both Modi and Amit Shah, then MOS Home had tried to intimidate and pressurise him into not giving facts and evidence in the possession of the State Intelligence Bureau related to the assassination of former MOS Revenue Shri Haren Pandya. The CBI investigation into the Pandya assassination has been recently severely criticised by the Gujarat High Court.
Most critically, Bhatt had challenged this FIR for which he was arrested through Writ Petition 135/2011 in the Supreme Court. The SC had issued notice to the Gujarat government on 29.7.2011. This hasty and vindictive, even desperate action of the Gujarat police directly while the matter is under consideration of the Supreme Court raises serious issues of contempt of the highest court, due process and most importantly intimidating a witness critical to a trial to ensure public justice. The alleged offences for which Bhatt was arresred are sections 183,189, 193, 195, 341 of the IPC. With our matter now awaiting being charge sheeting before a Gujarat Magistrate’s Court the arrest of Bhatt is also a clear attempt by the state of Gujarat to warn us all collectively and individually of repercussions if we struggle for justice. It is a pathetic subversion of the Constitution and the Rule of Law
Teesta Setalvad
Secretary
Trustee
Other Trustees: IM Kadri, Alyqye Padamsee, Nandan Maluste, Cyrus Giuzder, Javed Anand, Arvind Krishnaswamy, Javed Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Cedric Prakash, Ghulam Pesh Imam
Address: Nirant, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu, Mumbai, India – 400 049. Ph: 2660 2288
email: cjp02in@yahoo.com,
Sepember 30 2011
PRESS RELEASE
The Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) strongly condemns the vinictive action of the Gujarat government in arresting Sanjeev Bhatt, senior IPS officer in an action that is nothing short of an attempt to intimidate an important witness in the Zakia Ahsan Jafri and CJP criminal complaint against chief minister Narendra Modi and 61 others. This action of the Gujarat police under the direct intructions of the state’s Home Minister—Narendra Modi amounts to tampering with evidence and direct intimidation of a key witness. It is also a cheap attempt to slur his character and standing.
Key issues need to be raised here. One that through his affidavit before the Hon’ble Supreme Court dated April 2011 he had testified to criminal and un-Constitutional instructions being issued by Modi at a late night meeting of 27.2.2002 the day of the Godhra incident. In his statements before the SC-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) he also gave documentary data about Modi’s abdication of responsibility on 28.2.2002 the day attacks on Gulberg Society and Naroda Patia in Ahmedabad were in full swing. Finally, and last but not the least in an affidavit filed before the High Court recently Shri Bhatt had even mentioned that both Modi and Amit Shah, then MOS Home had tried to intimidate and pressurise him into not giving facts and evidence in the possession of the State Intelligence Bureau related to the assassination of former MOS Revenue Shri Haren Pandya. The CBI investigation into the Pandya assassination has been recently severely criticised by the Gujarat High Court.
Most critically, Bhatt had challenged this FIR for which he was arrested through Writ Petition 135/2011 in the Supreme Court. The SC had issued notice to the Gujarat government on 29.7.2011. This hasty and vindictive, even desperate action of the Gujarat police directly while the matter is under consideration of the Supreme Court raises serious issues of contempt of the highest court, due process and most importantly intimidating a witness critical to a trial to ensure public justice. The alleged offences for which Bhatt was arresred are sections 183,189, 193, 195, 341 of the IPC. With our matter now awaiting being charge sheeting before a Gujarat Magistrate’s Court the arrest of Bhatt is also a clear attempt by the state of Gujarat to warn us all collectively and individually of repercussions if we struggle for justice. It is a pathetic subversion of the Constitution and the Rule of Law
Teesta Setalvad
Secretary
Trustee
Other Trustees: IM Kadri, Alyqye Padamsee, Nandan Maluste, Cyrus Giuzder, Javed Anand, Arvind Krishnaswamy, Javed Akhtar, Rahul Bose, Cedric Prakash, Ghulam Pesh Imam
Address: Nirant, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu, Mumbai, India – 400 049. Ph: 2660 2288
email: cjp02in@yahoo.com,
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