Hate Speech

Speaking at a public meeting in the state, union Home Minister, Amit Shah attacks the state sanctioned quotas for Muslims as unconstitutional, promises to undue these as the BJP govt has done pre elections in Karnataka

These withdrawals were ordered during the tenure of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa

Demands were made to lay the groundwork for officially declaring India as a Hindu nation

Nanded in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region witnesses one more hate event where a legislator, Raja Singh and controversial religious scion, Kalicharan gave overtly Islamophobic speeches, calling for violence and no FIRs are filed even as a Muslim individual is arrested for protesting the hate

Hindusthani has been criss-crossing the country delivering doses of hate from Maharashtra to New Delhi; delivers speech asking Hindus to take up arms in New Delhi even after being first “booked” in Gujarat

Hate speech has been reported from three states, and speeches continue with complete impunity. Newer faces emerge each time, continuing with the same diatrib

While Vijayvargiya states that women dress “vulgarly” and look like “Surpanakha”, Sadhvi Prachi says that Muslim women are helpless as they have to wear black veils in 50 degree heat

Kalicharan is notorious for making hate speech in Maharashtra and despite intimation to the police in the past, no action whatsoever has been taken against him

At the Hindu Jagruti Sammelan, he made denigrating comments about women and also egged on Hindu men to lure Muslim women, while still having a Hindu wife.

Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive