The minorities, Dalits not getting provoked after a series of mob lynching and violence against them by Gau Rakshaks and those patronising them is the biggest achievement in the wake of the worst crisis because once they get provoked and retaliate accordingly, it is needless to say what would happen,” said Anil Chamadia, who heads Media Studies Group and is founder of Mass Media. He was addressing a public meet organised by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind at its headquarters on 15 July.
Speaking on ‘Democracy or Mobocracy,’ Chamadia compared the structure and the thought process of pre-Independence and post-Independence periods. The dialogue soon after Independence began of having a structure, framework and guidelines under which the country would be governed according to the rule of law and the Constitution. Now in the wake up of people taking law into their own hands during mob lynching or such violence we are debating whether or not the very structure and foundation of post-Independence will remain there and what would be its consequences.
While referring to the RSS and its ideology, he said that for RSS the British were never their enemy instead they had identified Muslims as their enemy according to the idea they had in their mind to identify the enemy and arm the Hindus which they had planned since its inception. What we can see today is the very extension of the idea and the ideology of the RSS. Muslims have become easy victims as compared to others because they are the first identified enemy and a lot of ground work has been done since the formation of the RSS. Mob lynching is not new but today the perpetrators are more organised, less afraid of the state machinery and rule of law.
While recalling the years spent at Saraswati Shishu Mandir School run by RSS, Mohit Pandey, president of JNU Students Union said that in that school the Constitution and the founding fathers were not given the kind respect and the place they deserve instead they were not even remembered as founding fathers. Pandey said that the false propaganda of the RSS and other affiliates should be countered democratically by remaining within the framework of the Constitution and not resorting to violence. He urged the people from all walks of life to come forward as and when required to thwart their nefarious designs aimed at dividing communities and societies.
Wasiq Nadeem, a social activist, cautioned the people by reminding them of the incidents of more than 5 to 10 lakhs lynching in a few days in various parts of the world and asked them to work on the ground against it.