
IMPOSE BAN ON RSS


To
The
Home Minister of India
Sub:
Request you to impose ban on RSS and below is the statement endorsed by the
people of this country.
We, the
undersigned, demand an immediate ban on the RSS and all its front organisations
and wings.
We strongly condemn the recent attack by hundreds
of RSS goons on the office cum studio of leading news channels Aaj Tak and
Headlines Today. This vicious sequence was supplemented by yet another attack
on another TV network in Mumbai by yet another lawless mob of the Shiv Sena.
There have been many cases earlier, though none as big as the recent attack,
when various RSS outfits have attacked the media violently, in a planned moved
to terrorise and intimidate. This follows the basic premise that these fanatic
Hindutva outfits, with their hydra-headed joint family, are undemocratic, do
not have faith in normal codes of decent, social behaviour, dislike all forms
of dissent, debate or intellectual enquiry, and are staunchly non-believers in
the basic tenets of the Indian Constitution.
Banned several times earlier, and accused in the
assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, their sinister fronts and masterminds have
been behind innumerable tragic events, violence and massacres which have rocked
the country: from a series of communal riots, to Babri Masjid demolition and
the riots thereafter, to the State sponsored Sangh Parivar carnage in Gujarat
2002, to the series of organised terror bomb blasts which killed hundreds
across the Indian landscape in recent times.
It is widely known that the RSS (Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh), which claims to be a cultural outfit, is the umbrella
organisation of the entire Sangh Parivar, and the political vanguard of the
family. It appoints and dismisses BJP presidents. It even decides chief
ministers and cabinet ministers of BJP governments. Most BJP leaders are
confirmed RSS members. It is aligned symbiotically with VHP/Bajrang Dal and a
network of similar lumpen organisations. It has thousands of branches which
have been at the forefront of not just spreading communalised-hate propaganda
but also in carrying out various kinds of systematic and underground terror and
violent activities especially through Abhinav Bharat, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and
Bajrang Dal.
The sting operation executed by Headlines Today/Aaj
Tak and stories covered by other media houses show that he RSS think-tank
connived in the bomb blast at Ajmer Shrief shrine on October 11, 2007. Some of
the cases where the sinister hands and minds of the Hindutva forces are being
explicitly talked about are: Nanded/ April 6, 2006, Delhi/ April 14, 2006,
Malegaon (Maharashtra)/ September 8, 2006, Samjhauta Express (Haryana)/
February 18, 2007, Mecca Masjid (Hyderabad)/ October 18, 2007, Kanpur/ August
24, 2008, Delhi/ September 27, 2008, Malegaon and Modasa (Gujarat)/ September
29, 2008, Grace church at Margao in South Goa/ October 16, 2009.
ANHAD as well many other civil society
organisations and several media publications/ channels have raised the
questions about the organised and penetrative involvement of Sangh in terror
activities many a times during the past five years in the media as well as with
various political parties and the government. It has been our stated position
that these organisations are infiltrating law enforcement and other official
agencies, subverting the legal process, and working on a long term and on a
highly insidious plan to destroy the Indian social fabric, the Constitution of
India and usher in a fundamentalist Hindu Rashtra. It is in this context that
their bloody attacks on minorities and innocents can be explained: to polarise
society, to create violence and anarchy among communities, to destroy
institutions and peaceful civil societies, to penetrate government systems,
including the army, and to finally carry out a kind of coup.
Due to the infiltration of the rightwing in almost
every sphere of public life including the establishment and part of the media,
a blatant cover up has been provided to the Sangh terror network. The same
media and the spokespersons of the government who brand Muslim youngsters or
individuals as terrorists within minutes of a bomb blast and declare their
connections to various dubious 'Muslim' organisations -- have not only kept
quite but have surreptitiously suppressed the information about the direct
involvement of the Sangh Parivar and many of their leaders in the terror
killings and bomb blasts.
Clearly, top leaders of the RSS and its front
organisations are involved. So how is the BJP, which receives orders from the
RSS, with most of its members intricately associated with the RSS, outside the
shadow of doubt?
Few excerpts from the revelations made in the
Headlines Today sting operation and other media stories about the RSS
pracharaks , workers and their linkages to the terror attacks:
Involvement of top RSS leader Indresh Kumar, a
close aide of the RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in the terror activities points
towards the depth of terror nexus with the Sangh Parivar. Late Maharashtra ATS
chief Hemant Karkare had in fact revealed the involvement of these links
starting from the Malegaon blasts.
Col. Purohit from Abhinav Bharat and Sadhvi
Pragnya's orginally have Hindutva links, and their role in the Malegaon blast
has been exposed. The names of Devendra Gupta and Lokesh Sharma along with Sandeep
Dange and Ramchandra Kalsangra have emerged in the Ajmer, Mecca Masjid,
Samjhauta express and Malegaon blasts.
For the Mecca Masjid blast inquiry, two top RSS
leaders from UP and Jharkhand, namely, Ashok Beri and Ashok Varshney, are
stated to be directly involved in giving shelter etc to the bomb blasts
accused.
ANHAD demands:
• an immediate imposition of ban on RSS and all
its front organisations and wings.
• an urgent and impartial time-bound enquiry in
all the terror bomb blast cases should be held to bring the fundamentalist
Hindutva forces to book. It is a sensitive matter pertaining to security of the
country and hence the terror links of RSS and its other offshoots should be
cracked urgently.
• Immediate release of innocent Muslim boys from those
cases where RSS involvement has been unearthed.
Endorsed
by Following:
A.S.Puthige, Director, Maadhyama Kendra, Bangalore.
Aamir
Idrisi, President, Association of Muslim Professionals, Mumbai Abhilasha Kumari, Delhi
Aditi Mangaldas, Dancer
Ali Javed - Progressive Writers' Association
Ambarish Rai, Convener, People's Campaign for
Common School System (PCCSS)
Anuradha Chenoy, Professor, JNU
Arjun Dev, retired professor, historian
Arundhati Dhuru- social activist, NAPM, Lucknow
Ashok Bharti, Chairman, National Confederation of
Dalit Organisations (NACDOR), Delhi Avani Rawal, Mahila Swaraj
Abhiyan, Gujarat Azeezullah Faisal, Youth Educational
Society, (T.N.) Digant
Oza, senior journalist, Jal Seva, Ahmedabad Dolly Daftary, Research Scholar, Delhi/USA
Dr
Harshvardhan Hedge, surgeon, Delhi
Dr. Sirivella Prasad, General Secretary, National
Dalit Movement for Justice (NCDHR - NDMJ)
Dunu Roy- Consultant, Environment, Delhi
Fr Cedric Prakash sj-Human Rights Activist,
Director, Prashant, Ahmedabad
Harsh Kapoor- South Asia Citizens Web, Delhi
Henri Tiphagne, Lawyer & Executive Director,
People's Watch, Tamil Nadu
Hiren Gandhi, theatre, Ahmedabad
Indu Prakash Singh- social activist
Indubhai Jani, Editor, Naya Marg, Ahmedabad
Jaya Mehta, Researcher, Sandarbh Kendra , Indore
Kaniz Fatima Muneeza, Delhi
K.G.
Kannabiran, Peoples' Union for Civil Liberties, Hyderabad
KN Panikkar, academicians, historian, Trivendrum
Lalji Desai, Gujarat
Madhu
Chandra-All India Christian Council, Delhi
Mahesh Bhatt, film producer and director, Mumbai
Mallika Sarabhai- dancer, actor, Ahmedabad
Manglesh Dabral, poet, journalist, Delhi
Mansi Sharma- Social Activist, Delhi
Md. Saleemoddin, Software
Engineer, Hyderabad
Mohammed Shareef. M P, Media Student, Hyderabad Mohd Mubashiruddin Khurram, Journalist, Siasat Daily, Hyderabad
Mushtaq Ul Haq Ahmad Sikander, Writer-Activist Nadim Nikhat, Centre for Social
Justice, Gujarat Nandini Sundar, Professor of
Sociology, Delhi University, Delhi
Naseeruddin Shah Theatre and Film Actor, Mumbai
Nawaid Hamid- Movement for Empowerment of Muslim
Indians Prasad Chako, National Campaign for Dalit Human Rights,
Ahmedabad
Prof Akhtarul Wasey, Delhi Prof. M.H. Jawahirullah, President,
Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhgam Ram
Puniyani, All India Secular Forum, Mumbai
Reny Ayline Saba Azad-Dancer, Actor
Sachin Pandya, Anhad, Ahmedabad
Sandeep Pandey-social activist, NAPM, Lucknow
Sandeep Vaidya, India Support Group, Dublin,
Ireland Sanjay Sharma, social activist, Delhi
Sayed Hassan, Businessman,
Mangalore
Seema Duhan- social activist, Anhad,
Delhi
Shabnam Hashmi-social activist, Anhad, Delhi
Sheba George, Social Activist, Ahmedabad
S M Abdur Raheem Patel - Chennai
(T.N
Sohail Hashmi-filmmaker, writer, Delhi)
Swarup Dhruv, poet, writer, Ahmedabad
Syed Ali Mujtaba, Senior
Journalist, Chennai Tameemuddin Humble, Muslim Empowerment
Forum, Bihar Uttambhai
Parmar, social activist, Surat
Vineet Tiwari,Writer,General Secretary, Madhya
Pradesh Progressive Writers' Association, Indore (M.P.)
Yogi Sikand, National Law School,
Bangalore Zafar Agha, journalist, Delhi
Zakia Jowher, Bhartiya Muslim Mahila Andolan
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