Fraternity Movement, a students group has called for the arrest of Supreme Court lawyer and former spokesperson of the Delhi unit of BJP Ashwini Upadhyay for organizing a rally at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on Sunday, where mobs called for the killings of Muslims.
In the videos of the event mobs gathered can be seen issuing genocidal threats against Muslims. Mobs can be seen chanting slogans like, “Jab mulle kaate jayenge, Ram-Ram chillayenge (Muslims will chant Ram-Ram when they will be slaughtered).” Another slogan raised was “Hindustan me rehna hoga, Jai Shree Ram kehna hoga (You will have to chant Jai Shree Ram if you want to live in India).”
In a statement, the students group also called for the arrest of actor and BJP leader Gajendra Chauhan who was among the participants at the event and for the arrest of anti-Islamic Hindu priest Yati Narsinghanand Saraswati who has a history of making derogatory and insulting remarks against Islam and inciting violence against Muslims.
“These kinds of hateful gatherings and calls for genocide has to not just be condemned but fought with on grounds. Anti-Muslim terror crimes have become a common occurrence and there is no contestation from the opposition,” the statement read.
Fraternity Movement also questioned the FIR registered against “unknown people”, when the faces of those raising slogans are clearly visible in the videos.
“Despite visual evidence of hatred and blatant flouting of Covid guidelines, there has been no direct action from the police or executive against the organizers of these rallies. Registering an FIR against “unknown people” when the real perpetrators are known is nothing less than rendering institutional support to genocide enablers.”
They said incidents like the one in Jantar Mantar should not be deemed to be, the doings of a fringe group, but said that it is the reflections of the society.
“These are the reflections of the society we are living in, where Muslims are at risk of losing their liberty, their rights, and their lives. The Islamophobia is propagated by those who either actively call for genocide, or passively lend support in the form of silence,” they added.
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