Yogendra Yadav: Delhi riots neither designed nor conspiracy. It’s far more dangerous // // Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi // HC judge who pulled up Delhi police over failure to register FIR's against BJP leaders is transferred
NB: After the recent riots and the display of impunity enjoyed by criminals (and in light of events unfolding over the past few years), it is clear that the Modi regime is focussed on securing absolute power by the following methods:
Using constitutional freedoms to destroy the democratic freedoms of their critics
Undermining public faith in constitutional institutions
Using freedom of speech to spread hatred and intimidation
Neutralising the police and criminal justice to secure impunity for selected criminal acts
Intimidating the judiciary
Manipulating electoral regulations and procedures to their advantage
Constantly stoking up communal issues to drown all problems in religious conflict
Condemning Maoist violence whilst engaging in or encouraging communal violence
Confusing and confounding all conversation so that truthful speech becomes impossible
Undermining environmental regulations
Neutralising or intimidating the free press and other media
Using social media to spread disinformation and hatred
Assaulting the daily lives of the working poor
Setting up an ideological tyranny in the name of Hindutva
In all these projects, formal procedures will be used to destroy their spirit. All criticism will be denounced as anti-national, anti-Hindu, etc.; and all opponents, within or outside governmental institutions will be intimidated or silenced by any means necessary. These issues can be expanded upon, but the above-mentioned points are the crux of the matter.
As to the impulse behind the recent violence, here is an interpretation slightly different from Yadav's. To which I can add: when a climate of impunity is created by those who hold supreme executive authority, it encourages criminal actions of the kind just witnessed. We could call the ensuing violence 'calibrated spontaneity.' Is there any sign that the hooligans who raided JNU will be punished? Since law and order in Delhi is under the Home Minister, is it not logical to say that he was (and remains) incompetent or complicit in the violence?
All those who love liberty and India's complex, multi-faceted culture must face up to the fact that our freedoms are at stake. To those who retain illusions about this regime I can only warn them: the politics of Hindutva do not represent love of India, but the love of absolute power. Its representatives are not strengthening our country, but destroying it. And yes, this has been going on for a long time: here is my comment on the 30th anniverary of 1984. Good luck to all: DS
PS: I append some critical comments on Yadav's analysis by a friend:
Delhi violence: High Court gave Police one day to file hate FIRs, now gives it a month
Delhi riots neither designed by govt, nor conspiracy. It’s far more dangerous
Has the Narendra Modi regime normalised violence in a way that could hurt the Prime Minister himself? Has he created a Frankenstein monster that he cannot destroy? That is the real question to ask, as we sit back and reflect on the Delhi violence that could have been a pogrom. It began on Sunday as a confrontation between police and protesters. After BJP leader Kapil Mishra’s provocation, it became a Hindu-Muslim riot on Monday. By Tuesday, it had become one-sided anti-Muslim violence that reminded everyone of 1984. I write these lines on Wednesday noon when there are some indications of the violence that engulfed the national capital for three days ebbing.
Narendra Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi
P. B. Mehta: Our rulers want an India that thrives on cruelty, fear, division and violence
Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya's Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths
Official death toll at this moment is 24 – informal estimates put it at double this figure – but there are no fresh incidents of murderous assaults of the kind we witnessed on Monday and Tuesday. The violence that threatened to spread to other areas of East Delhi on Tuesday evening has been contained to the original hotspots in the northeast of Delhi. Mobs that were ruling the street Tuesday as Delhi Police personnel stood watching or joined them are finally being chased out. Our 24×7 crisis management and support team tells me that since Tuesday midnight, police are responding positively to their calls for help.
The heroic 2 am intervention by the Delhi High Court to order police to allow safe passage so that the injured could be taken to the hospital has certainly helped. We may have just stepped back from the brink of another 1984-type pogrom in the national capital. What saved Delhi from a much bigger disaster? And what led us in that direction of the disaster in the first place?... read more:
https://theprint.in/opinion/delhi-riots-neither-designed-by-modi-govt-nor-islamic-conspiracy-its-far-more-dangerous/371544/
HC judge who asked Delhi Police to register FIR's against BJP leaders is transferred
Hours after Justice Muralidhar pulled up the Delhi Police over its inaction in filing FIRs against BJP leaders who made hate speeches and expressed “anguish” over the communal violence in northeast Delhi, a notification was issued approving a February 12 recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium to transfer him to the Punjab and Haryana HC. A transfer notification from the Department of Justice in the Ministry of Law and Justice said, “In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 222 of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, is pleased to transfer Shri Justice S Muralidhar, Judge of the Delhi High Court, as a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and to direct him to assume charge of his office in the Punjab and Haryana High Court”.
Siddharth Varadarajan: Narendra Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi
Don’t be confused by the big media narrative of pro- and anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters or “two sides” fighting it out in the streets of Delhi. And for heaven’s sake don’t fall for the ludicrous claim made by the minister of state for home affairs G. Kishan Reddy that the continuing violence is a “conspiracy to defame India”. As the death toll from the Delhi Riots inches past 30, we need to remind ourselves that until violence was cynically unleashed on the women and children protesting the CA Act in different parts of North East Delhi – most of whom are Muslim – the national capital had witnessed 70 days of peace.
see also
The Delhi pogrom 2020 is Amit Shah’s answer to an election defeat
JNU Students, Teachers Attacked By Masked Men; Mob Chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' Outside Gate
The Broken Middle - on the 30th anniversary of 1984
Sulphur in the air: 1984 is not forgotten
सीबीआई जज की मौत को लेकर उठे सवाल
Using constitutional freedoms to destroy the democratic freedoms of their critics
Undermining public faith in constitutional institutions
Using freedom of speech to spread hatred and intimidation
Neutralising the police and criminal justice to secure impunity for selected criminal acts
Intimidating the judiciary
Manipulating electoral regulations and procedures to their advantage
Constantly stoking up communal issues to drown all problems in religious conflict
Condemning Maoist violence whilst engaging in or encouraging communal violence
Confusing and confounding all conversation so that truthful speech becomes impossible
Undermining environmental regulations
Neutralising or intimidating the free press and other media
Using social media to spread disinformation and hatred
Assaulting the daily lives of the working poor
Setting up an ideological tyranny in the name of Hindutva
In all these projects, formal procedures will be used to destroy their spirit. All criticism will be denounced as anti-national, anti-Hindu, etc.; and all opponents, within or outside governmental institutions will be intimidated or silenced by any means necessary. These issues can be expanded upon, but the above-mentioned points are the crux of the matter.
As to the impulse behind the recent violence, here is an interpretation slightly different from Yadav's. To which I can add: when a climate of impunity is created by those who hold supreme executive authority, it encourages criminal actions of the kind just witnessed. We could call the ensuing violence 'calibrated spontaneity.' Is there any sign that the hooligans who raided JNU will be punished? Since law and order in Delhi is under the Home Minister, is it not logical to say that he was (and remains) incompetent or complicit in the violence?
All those who love liberty and India's complex, multi-faceted culture must face up to the fact that our freedoms are at stake. To those who retain illusions about this regime I can only warn them: the politics of Hindutva do not represent love of India, but the love of absolute power. Its representatives are not strengthening our country, but destroying it. And yes, this has been going on for a long time: here is my comment on the 30th anniverary of 1984. Good luck to all: DS
PS: I append some critical comments on Yadav's analysis by a friend:
Where Yogendra Yadav is quick to the defence of Modi. Laughable.
Did the pogrom happen overnight?
No sustained campaign built in Delhi with attacks on students and protestors?
No inflammatory statements from BJP leaders?
No ratcheting up by BJP poodles in the media?
No gun wielding youths firing on protestors? No sign of police actively supporting every attack on anti- CAA protests?
No pleading for time by the Attorney General of India sent by Modi to defend the Delhi Police when asked by Hon judge why FIRs were not lodged against people like Kapil Mishra?
No whataboutery by BJP spokeman Javadekar after the violence?
No 24x7 hate campaign by Amit Malviya and BJP IT Cell that continues even after Doval’s perfunctory visit to NE Delhi? Delhi violence: High Court gave Police one day to file hate FIRs, now gives it a month
Delhi riots neither designed by govt, nor conspiracy. It’s far more dangerous
Has the Narendra Modi regime normalised violence in a way that could hurt the Prime Minister himself? Has he created a Frankenstein monster that he cannot destroy? That is the real question to ask, as we sit back and reflect on the Delhi violence that could have been a pogrom. It began on Sunday as a confrontation between police and protesters. After BJP leader Kapil Mishra’s provocation, it became a Hindu-Muslim riot on Monday. By Tuesday, it had become one-sided anti-Muslim violence that reminded everyone of 1984. I write these lines on Wednesday noon when there are some indications of the violence that engulfed the national capital for three days ebbing.
Narendra Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi
P. B. Mehta: Our rulers want an India that thrives on cruelty, fear, division and violence
Apoorva Mandhani: Judge Loya's Confidants Died Mysterious Deaths
Official death toll at this moment is 24 – informal estimates put it at double this figure – but there are no fresh incidents of murderous assaults of the kind we witnessed on Monday and Tuesday. The violence that threatened to spread to other areas of East Delhi on Tuesday evening has been contained to the original hotspots in the northeast of Delhi. Mobs that were ruling the street Tuesday as Delhi Police personnel stood watching or joined them are finally being chased out. Our 24×7 crisis management and support team tells me that since Tuesday midnight, police are responding positively to their calls for help.
The heroic 2 am intervention by the Delhi High Court to order police to allow safe passage so that the injured could be taken to the hospital has certainly helped. We may have just stepped back from the brink of another 1984-type pogrom in the national capital. What saved Delhi from a much bigger disaster? And what led us in that direction of the disaster in the first place?... read more:
https://theprint.in/opinion/delhi-riots-neither-designed-by-modi-govt-nor-islamic-conspiracy-its-far-more-dangerous/371544/
HC judge who asked Delhi Police to register FIR's against BJP leaders is transferred
Hours after Justice Muralidhar pulled up the Delhi Police over its inaction in filing FIRs against BJP leaders who made hate speeches and expressed “anguish” over the communal violence in northeast Delhi, a notification was issued approving a February 12 recommendation of the Supreme Court Collegium to transfer him to the Punjab and Haryana HC. A transfer notification from the Department of Justice in the Ministry of Law and Justice said, “In exercise of the power conferred by clause (1) of Article 222 of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, is pleased to transfer Shri Justice S Muralidhar, Judge of the Delhi High Court, as a Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and to direct him to assume charge of his office in the Punjab and Haryana High Court”.
Addressing a press
conference, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said, “Justice
Muralidhar was transferred overnight. The country is no longer surprised at the
brazenness, high-handedness of the Narendra Modi-Amit
Shah govt to shield those who have on record given hate speeches”.
Protesting Justice
Muralidhar’s transfer, the Delhi High Court Bar Association had urged the
Collegium to “revisit” and recall its recommendation, saying such transfers
“tend to erode and dislodge the faith of the common litigant in the justice
dispensation system”. Known for his bold
pronouncements on communal violence and personal liberty, Justice Muralidhar
delivered the Hashimpura verdict, convicting personnel of the Uttar Pradesh PAC
for the 1987 mass killings, and also convicted Congress leader Sajjan Kumar for
his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He was part of the
two-judge bench along with then Chief Justice A P Shah that delivered the
landmark verdict decriminalising homosexuality...
Siddharth Varadarajan: Narendra Modi’s Reckless Politics Brings Mob Rule to New Delhi
Don’t be confused by the big media narrative of pro- and anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act protesters or “two sides” fighting it out in the streets of Delhi. And for heaven’s sake don’t fall for the ludicrous claim made by the minister of state for home affairs G. Kishan Reddy that the continuing violence is a “conspiracy to defame India”. As the death toll from the Delhi Riots inches past 30, we need to remind ourselves that until violence was cynically unleashed on the women and children protesting the CA Act in different parts of North East Delhi – most of whom are Muslim – the national capital had witnessed 70 days of peace.
Throughout the 70 days
of peaceful protest across multiple locations, there were no mobs on the
rampage, no stone pelting, no burning of shops and homes. Only people sitting
on dharna, surrounded by the national flag, copies of the preamble of the
constitution and portraits of national icons like Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi
and Maulana Azad. So why did violence
suddenly engulf the city? Who willed it? Who allowed it to happen? ...
see also
The Delhi pogrom 2020 is Amit Shah’s answer to an election defeat
JNU Students, Teachers Attacked By Masked Men; Mob Chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' Outside Gate
The Broken Middle - on the 30th anniversary of 1984
Sulphur in the air: 1984 is not forgotten
सीबीआई जज की मौत को लेकर उठे सवाल
