Munawar Faruqui: Real Villain is Divisive Heartland Politics, Not Stand-up Comics. By PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR
The story behind the arrest of Gujarat stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui in Indore on New Year’s Day is a clear display of proto-fascist muscle-power by the local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator and the city’s former mayor Malini Singh Gaur’s son, Eklavya Singh Gaur. They interrupted a show at Café Monroe and the police arrested Faruqui and his co-performers instead of Gaur and his musclemen, which tells a tale of politico-cultural terrorism of those associated with the ruling party in Madhya Pradesh.
A detailed report published in Firstpost provides a
vivid picture of the behaviour of Gaur, who is identified as the convenor of
Hind Rakshak Sangathan, which is that of a local strongman whose illegal writ
goes unchallenged. The show was interrupted before Faruqui’s performance and
the accusations thrown at him are with reference to an earlier video which was
made long ago. The controversy over the alleged contents of that video raged
and subsided after the comedian had expressed his regrets and apologised.
Therefore, the interruption and the arrest that followed the commotion created by Gaur and his gang were criminal acts in themselves which called for his and his group’s arrest instead of that of Faruqui and his associates. What has happened makes a mockery of the law-and-order machinery in the BJP-ruled state. Worse was to follow. The court in Indore refused bail to Faruqui not because of the charges brought against him under section 295A of IPC (hurting religious sentiments) and section 269 (unlawful or negligent act that could spread infection of any disease dangerous to life), but because of the police plea that it would disturb the law and order situation, as reported by indiatimes.com.
It is a farcical situation, and laughable, but for the
serious implications of misuse of state power by the stormtroopers of the Hind
Rakshak Sanghatan. And it goes beyond the goonda-ism of arrogant individuals
and gangs associated with the BJP and the cowed-down local administration….
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