Protest against the violence and intolerance in India

India is an independent, multi cultural, multi religious, & multi lingual nation. Our strength is our unity in diversity. This itself is the idea of India. The leaders who led a long struggle for the independence were successful because of their trust among all sections and communities of the society. The independence of India is therefore the outcome of the struggle and sacrifices made by all people irrespective of their cast, religion, and believes.

The modern India is sovereign, socialist, secular and democratic republic. Equality, fraternity and liberty of thoughts, expressions, believe, faith and worship are the bedrock of our constitution.

Since from the formation of Modi government in May 2014, it is observed that a new wave of organized violence, terror and intolerance is unleashed against the rational intellectual, SC, ST and religious minorities. The six month report (January to June, 2015) on communal violence in India shows that there is 25% steep increased in communal and cast violence and 65% increased in death toll when compare to the same period ( January to June) for the year 2014. Within this short period of 6months 330 communal and cast violence took place wherein 51 Muslims & Dalits were killed and 1,092 injured. The top five rioting states in this period are as follows.

Dadri, Ballabgadh, Ahmedabad, Jamshedpur, Muzaffarnagar, Mumbai and many other towns and cities are become known to the people because of the violence where Dalit and religious minorities were killed by the Hindutwa forces who are the shadow organizations of ruling political party.

Apart from the atrocities on Dalit and Muslims rational thinkers and intellectuals are being targeted. Dr. M. Kalburgi the vice chancellor of Hampi University and Mr. Govind Pansare social reformer have been killed. Dr. Perumal Murugan and Dr. U.R Ananta Murthy were forced into silence by right wing organizations. The growing assaults on free speech and attacks on rationalist has forced the nations’ intellectuals to protest and return their literary award like Sahitya Akademy and other state awards to the government. More than 40 writers from different languages and regions have returned their awards in protest.

The Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR) with over ten social and civil rights organizations resolved to protest against the violence and intolerance in India on 28^th October, 2015. Dr. Near Ambedkar Statue Nampally, Hyderabad at 11am and

1. Expresses their concern about the alarming trends of growing cast and communal violence and intolerance on others’ views and thoughts.
2. Expresses their concern about the organized violence, atrocities and mob attacks on innocent, helpless Dalit and Muslims.
3. Urges the central government to prevent their men from making provocative, instigating and irresponsible statements which is promoting intolerance and violence in their cadre and damaging social fabric of our society.
4. Urges the central government to control their shadow organizations indulging in organized violence in different parts of the country.
5. Urges the central and state government to meet their constitutional obligations to ensure law and order, protect life and property and their fundamental rights of the people.

Urges the state government of Utter Pradesh and Haryana to book the criminals of the violence and provide compensation to the diseased families.