Mass protests against CAA NRC and NPR
Pledge to continue the struggle and observe the last week of February, starting from 24th ,as Protest Week
Malerkolta/Chandigarh/16 February- On the call of 14 active organizations of Farmers, Field laborers, Industrial and Electricity workers , youth and students of Punjab, a state wide huge protest rally was been organized in the grain market of Malerkotla in which workers from different religions and castes including thousands of women participated enthusiastically. A massive gathering of people raising the slogans like ‘Never again any 1947, no more attacks on our brotherhood’, ‘Death to Fascism’etc demanded vociferously that the Modi government should repeal these black fascist laws. Different delegations from Shaheen Bagh, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi and ‘Karvan-e- Muhabbat’( Caravan of Love) also participated in the rally. The gathering unanimously pledged that they will not allow the malevolent RSS-BJP government in the centre to divide the country on religious lines and flare up ultra nationalism and hence crush the democratic rights, incite religious riots and loot people.
Pledging to continue its campaign to counter the spread of communal poisoning in the country by the Modi government it was announced on this occasion that a protest week will be observed in Punjab from 24 to 29 February. The speakers also warned the Congress government of Punjab that if it insidiously tries to implement the NPR , it should brace itself up to face the bitter anger of the people of Punjab.
The gathering was addressed by Joginder Singh, president of BKU Ekta Ugrahan , Boota Singh Burj Gill , president of BKU ( Ekta Dakaunda) , Rajwinder Singh, president of Textile Hosiery kamgar Union, Kanwaljeet Singh Pannu , convener of Kisan Sangharsh Committee Punjab, Lachhman Singh Sevewala from Punjab Khet Mazdoor Union, Hushiar Singh from PSU ( Shaheed Randhawa), Gurpreet Singh, State level leader from PSU ( Lalkar) , Surinder Singh from Inquilabi Mazdoor Kendar, Harjinder from Moulder and Steel Worker Union, Lakhwinder Singh from Karkhana Mazdoor Union, Women and Farmer leader Harinder Bindoo, Women peasant leader Amarjit Kaur of Kisan Union(Dakaunda), Naujwan Bharat Sabha ( Lalkar) leader Namita, Naujwan Bharat Sabha leader Ashwani Ghudda, Harsha Singh from Inquilabi Naujwan Vidyarthi Munch.
Apart from above mentioned leaders, the leading intellectual Harsh Mander from Jamia Milia Islamia and student leader Saif- ul – Islam, Tamur from Shaheen Bagh, Professor Jagmohan Singh, Pramod from TSU, Parminder from Desh Bhagat Yadgaari Committee Jalandhar, Rajinder Bhadaud from Taraksheel Society, Amolak Singh from Pulse Manch, Abdul Shakoor and Shagufta Yawer from Jamaat e Islami Punjab, and Kulwant Singh from Jamhoori Kisan Sabha, Gurnam Singh Daud from Dihati Mazdoor Sabha also addressed the rally.
Speakers unanimously said that using the trident of CAA, NRC and NPR the Modi government is committing the vicious act of communal division in the country. Its target is not only the Muslim minority but also all working people, Dalits, backward classes, oppressed nationalities, people, people’s intellectuals, secular and scientific thinkers, and all allied groups fighting for their rights. They alleged that the RSS- BJP's regime has changed the meaning of patriotism.
Anyone who criticizes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti India policies, raises the slogans of ‘Azadi’(independence) and does not chant Jai Shri Ram has been thrown into prisons for being anti-national or lynched by radical Hindutva mobs. They alleged that the BJP was treacherously misleading the people of the country by allowing the big corporations to loot freely the water, forest, land and other rich natural resources in the name of patriotism.
They said that the real patriots of the country are those working people of all religions including Muslims who are contributing to the production in the country, those who are fighting to protect the secular foundations of the country, opposing privatisatio, liberalization, gloabalisation, as well as those who are guarding the resources of our country from the blatant loot by Adani-Ambani and other corporate families. They emphasized that the danger to the people of the country was not from the Muslims but from the Modi government and its policies determined to sell the country.
They said that the Modi government wants to make the country a Hindu nation but that does not mean the development of people belonging to Hindu religion, but rather establishing a backward state where the basic democratic and legal rights of the people can be fully crushed. They said that whenever the rulers of the country flared up communal riots in the country, the women and the working poor had to bear the worst blunt.They said that the way women-youth- students , intellectuals, farmers, and labourers have participated in the protests ,regardless of their caste and religion, is exemplary and has defeated for once the BJP government’s malicious plans of inciting anti-muslim riots by flaring up the Hindutva fanatism. They stressed that the people of the country will never allow Modi's communal steps to succeed and the people of Punjab have decided to fight till end in this struggle.
It was demanded that the CAA be repealed, NRC NPR be taken back and cases against the protesting people be withdrawn and arrested intellectuals and people be released, and that strict action should be taken against officers involved in brutal action in JNU, Jamia University and various other cities in the country. The masked goons who entered JNU should be arrested, strict action should be taken on Yogi Adityanath who incited people by chanting the “Goli Maaro” slogan, also action should be taken against top BJP leader Anurag Thakur and those Sanghi goons who fired at Jamia and Shaheen Bagh protesters, strict action e taken against those police personnel who kicked protesting women’s private parts and also those goons be indicted who physically abused Gargi College students, the detention camps across the country should be closed and the people there should be released. The NSA in Delhi as well as all other black laws should be repealed. In the rally a resolution was passed protesting the brutal onslaught on Kashmiri people and their forced arrests and draconian restrictions imposed on them and it was demanded that Section 370 and 35-A be repealed. Also a condolence motion was passed holding the local administration responsible for the death of four innocent children killed in yesterdays bus fire incident at Longowal.
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