Political hooliganism & defiance of law in UP, police helpless - Arrest us and see what happens, says BJP's Uma Bharti // Did Azam Khan pressure police? // Kadir Rana, BSP leader managed to be in Delhi & Muzaffarnagar on the same day
NB - The situation developing today is a throwback to 1989-92, when the RSS launched a vicious campaign that resulted in the demolition of Babri Masjid.
See A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (SVA).‘The very first essential for success’, said Hitler in Mein Kampf, ‘is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.’ (See The edge of oblivion). "Fascism thrives on violence, it depends upon hatred & communal tension. "Fear is crucial to the fascist project, because only the dread of extinction can overcome class, caste and gender divisions in the daily lives of people of all communities. Hence fascists specialize in using hurt sentiment as a pretext for mob violence.."See The law of killing: a brief history of Indian fascism
BJP leader Uma Bharti today warned of "more tension" in Uttar Pradesh if politicians from her party are arrested for instigating the riots that tore through Muzaffarnagar earlier this month, leaving nearly 50 people dead and forcing 40,000 people into refugee camps. "Our MLAs (state legislators) will not oppose their arrest, but the government is responsible for what will follow. I am warning them," she said, in comments directed to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP). "If any MLAs are arrested, it means they (SP) want to restart the riots... and this time, they want to target one particular community and one party."
She issued her threat outside the state assembly in Lucknow while flanking her party's Sangeet Som, one of the politicians against whom a warrant has been issued by a local court. Party workers encircled Mr Som, forcing the police that had arrived to arrest him to turn away. Mr Som has admitted that his office circulated a fake video that claimed to show the lynching of two Hindu Jat boys; he said that the video had been uploaded by the ruling Samajwadi Party originally. The police says the footage is two years old and from Pakistan, and inflamed the tension that resulted in the worst communal riots in the state in over a decade. The group of politicians accused of delivering incendiary speeches at different meetings in Muzaffarnagar include Sangeet Som and Bhartendu Singh of the BJP; Kadir Rana, Noor Saleem and Maulana Jameel of the BSP; and Congress leader Saeeduzaman.
The riots have triggered speculation that parties are seeking to polarise the politically pivotal state along religious lines ahead of general elections due next year. The Samajwadi Party has accused the BJP of inciting violence; the BJP denies that and says the government has enforced policies that protect and serve only minority voters.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/muzaffarnagar-riots-arrest-us-and-see-what-happens-bjp-s-uma-bharti-warns-akhilesh-yadav-420541?pfrom=home-lateststories
Azam Khan denies pressuring cops in Muzaffarnagar
Azam Khan, a senior minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, has refuted charges that he pressured police officials to ignore the violence that erupted in Muzaffarnagar earlier this month which left nearly 50 people dead and drove 40,000 villagers from their homes to makeshift refugee camps. A private TV channel, Headlines Today, aired footage last night of police officers blaming "political pressure" for their inaction as the Hindu-Muslim riots tore through this part of Western UP. One officer said Mr Khan's instructions were being followed. Two cops who admitted to delayed intervention have been transferred after the alleged expose was aired.
"All my phone numbers including that of my residence and office should be scanned....and if I am found guilty, the channel should tell the punishment for me...I will accept the harshest of punishments, if found guilty....I am not that type of a person," Mr Khan told reporters. He is in charge of Muzaffarnagar for the ruling Samajwadi Party, which has been accused of ignoring early warning signs of escalating communal tension. The minister alleged that in the sting operation, the channel's reporter asked leading questions about him and that the footage had been doctored. "This is not fair. Why is there a beep sound when the reporter is asking a question?" Mr Azam asked. Mr Khan said that he has never interfered in administrative or police working and would "prefer to die instead of doing something like that".
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/after-tv-sting-azam-khan-denies-pressuring-cops-in-muzaffarnagar-420340?h_related_also_see
Kadir Rana, BSP leader wanted for riots managed to be in Parliament and Muzaffarnagar on the same day
Muzaffarnagar MP Kadir Rana, who is wanted by the police for inciting communal clashes that killed nearly 50 and left 40,000 displaced in his constituency, allegedly signed in his attendance in Parliament on a day he was addressing a controversial gathering in Uttar Pradesh. It is not known whether it was a deliberate attempt to craft an alibi.
Mr Rana, a member of Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is accused of making highly incendiary speeches at a gathering on August 30 called after Friday prayers, at a time when public meetings had been banned amid tension after the killing of three young men in Kawal village - two Jat cousins and a Muslim man. The cousins were allegedly lynched by a mob after they killed a Muslim man for harassing their sister. But on the day he was making that speech in Muzaffarnagar, Kadir Rana has signed in his attendance in the Lok Sabha register in Delhi, implying that he was in Parliament at the time. Sources say he may have signed the Lok Sabha register later, as is a common practice among MPs.
Mr Rana was one of the nine politicians against whom a court issued arrest warrants today. The Uttar Pradesh police say they will arrest the politicians within two days. (Muzaffarnagar riots: warrants against politicians, still no arrests) As his constituency struggles to cope with the aftermath of the violence which drove thousands of villagers to relief camps, Kadir Rana has not been seen for almost two weeks. He hasn't been to his homes in Muzaffarnagar or Delhi, say his staff. (read: Where is Kadir Rana?) "We don't know where he is, but he has not gone underground," said Mr Rana's secretary at his home in Muzaffarnagar. "He is being framed, his words have been twisted out of context. He will soon come out and speak to the media," the aide said. Mr Rana, who left the Samajwadi Party in 2007, was in the Rashtriya Lok Dal before he switched to the BSP in 2009. He has four criminal cases against him, including murder, attempt to murder and robbery.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/how-kadir-rana-bsp-leader-wanted-for-riots-managed-to-be-in-parliament-and-muzaffarnagar-on-the-same-420385?pfrom=home-otherstories
See also
Muzaffarnagar 2013: Violence by Political Design: Centre for Policy Analysis
A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (SVA)
Political Resolution of the Annual Convention of the SVA, Delhi, March 1992
Rethinking Secularism by Bhagwan Josh, Dilip Simeon & Purushottam Agrawal
Communalism in Modern India
See A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (SVA).‘The very first essential for success’, said Hitler in Mein Kampf, ‘is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.’ (See The edge of oblivion). "Fascism thrives on violence, it depends upon hatred & communal tension. "Fear is crucial to the fascist project, because only the dread of extinction can overcome class, caste and gender divisions in the daily lives of people of all communities. Hence fascists specialize in using hurt sentiment as a pretext for mob violence.."See The law of killing: a brief history of Indian fascism
BJP leader Uma Bharti today warned of "more tension" in Uttar Pradesh if politicians from her party are arrested for instigating the riots that tore through Muzaffarnagar earlier this month, leaving nearly 50 people dead and forcing 40,000 people into refugee camps. "Our MLAs (state legislators) will not oppose their arrest, but the government is responsible for what will follow. I am warning them," she said, in comments directed to the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP). "If any MLAs are arrested, it means they (SP) want to restart the riots... and this time, they want to target one particular community and one party."
She issued her threat outside the state assembly in Lucknow while flanking her party's Sangeet Som, one of the politicians against whom a warrant has been issued by a local court. Party workers encircled Mr Som, forcing the police that had arrived to arrest him to turn away. Mr Som has admitted that his office circulated a fake video that claimed to show the lynching of two Hindu Jat boys; he said that the video had been uploaded by the ruling Samajwadi Party originally. The police says the footage is two years old and from Pakistan, and inflamed the tension that resulted in the worst communal riots in the state in over a decade. The group of politicians accused of delivering incendiary speeches at different meetings in Muzaffarnagar include Sangeet Som and Bhartendu Singh of the BJP; Kadir Rana, Noor Saleem and Maulana Jameel of the BSP; and Congress leader Saeeduzaman.
The riots have triggered speculation that parties are seeking to polarise the politically pivotal state along religious lines ahead of general elections due next year. The Samajwadi Party has accused the BJP of inciting violence; the BJP denies that and says the government has enforced policies that protect and serve only minority voters.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/muzaffarnagar-riots-arrest-us-and-see-what-happens-bjp-s-uma-bharti-warns-akhilesh-yadav-420541?pfrom=home-lateststories
Azam Khan denies pressuring cops in Muzaffarnagar
Azam Khan, a senior minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, has refuted charges that he pressured police officials to ignore the violence that erupted in Muzaffarnagar earlier this month which left nearly 50 people dead and drove 40,000 villagers from their homes to makeshift refugee camps. A private TV channel, Headlines Today, aired footage last night of police officers blaming "political pressure" for their inaction as the Hindu-Muslim riots tore through this part of Western UP. One officer said Mr Khan's instructions were being followed. Two cops who admitted to delayed intervention have been transferred after the alleged expose was aired.
"All my phone numbers including that of my residence and office should be scanned....and if I am found guilty, the channel should tell the punishment for me...I will accept the harshest of punishments, if found guilty....I am not that type of a person," Mr Khan told reporters. He is in charge of Muzaffarnagar for the ruling Samajwadi Party, which has been accused of ignoring early warning signs of escalating communal tension. The minister alleged that in the sting operation, the channel's reporter asked leading questions about him and that the footage had been doctored. "This is not fair. Why is there a beep sound when the reporter is asking a question?" Mr Azam asked. Mr Khan said that he has never interfered in administrative or police working and would "prefer to die instead of doing something like that".
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/after-tv-sting-azam-khan-denies-pressuring-cops-in-muzaffarnagar-420340?h_related_also_see
Kadir Rana, BSP leader wanted for riots managed to be in Parliament and Muzaffarnagar on the same day
Muzaffarnagar MP Kadir Rana, who is wanted by the police for inciting communal clashes that killed nearly 50 and left 40,000 displaced in his constituency, allegedly signed in his attendance in Parliament on a day he was addressing a controversial gathering in Uttar Pradesh. It is not known whether it was a deliberate attempt to craft an alibi.
Mr Rana, a member of Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), is accused of making highly incendiary speeches at a gathering on August 30 called after Friday prayers, at a time when public meetings had been banned amid tension after the killing of three young men in Kawal village - two Jat cousins and a Muslim man. The cousins were allegedly lynched by a mob after they killed a Muslim man for harassing their sister. But on the day he was making that speech in Muzaffarnagar, Kadir Rana has signed in his attendance in the Lok Sabha register in Delhi, implying that he was in Parliament at the time. Sources say he may have signed the Lok Sabha register later, as is a common practice among MPs.
Mr Rana was one of the nine politicians against whom a court issued arrest warrants today. The Uttar Pradesh police say they will arrest the politicians within two days. (Muzaffarnagar riots: warrants against politicians, still no arrests) As his constituency struggles to cope with the aftermath of the violence which drove thousands of villagers to relief camps, Kadir Rana has not been seen for almost two weeks. He hasn't been to his homes in Muzaffarnagar or Delhi, say his staff. (read: Where is Kadir Rana?) "We don't know where he is, but he has not gone underground," said Mr Rana's secretary at his home in Muzaffarnagar. "He is being framed, his words have been twisted out of context. He will soon come out and speak to the media," the aide said. Mr Rana, who left the Samajwadi Party in 2007, was in the Rashtriya Lok Dal before he switched to the BSP in 2009. He has four criminal cases against him, including murder, attempt to murder and robbery.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/how-kadir-rana-bsp-leader-wanted-for-riots-managed-to-be-in-parliament-and-muzaffarnagar-on-the-same-420385?pfrom=home-otherstories
See also
Muzaffarnagar 2013: Violence by Political Design: Centre for Policy Analysis
A Brief History of the Sampradayikta Virodhi Andolan (SVA)
Political Resolution of the Annual Convention of the SVA, Delhi, March 1992
Rethinking Secularism by Bhagwan Josh, Dilip Simeon & Purushottam Agrawal
Communalism in Modern India
