In response to this, the Congress went ahead and announced protest demonstrations across state and district headquarters. They have stated that there were planned attacks on the yatra convoys in Assam. In one incident, it has been reported that Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah has reportedly sustained injuries in an attack on the yatra in Nagaon district. Furthermore, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh further claimed that his vehicle was also vandalised in the incident. The situation escalated when a crowd that reports allege was composed of BJP workers, reported attacked the yatra convoy led by Rahul Gandhi. According to visuals shared by ANI, Rahul Gandhi was seen getting of a bus and approaching the crowd that had gathered there. However, subsequently, amidst the chaotic scenes which saw the presence of various men who were displaying BJP flags, Gandhi’s security personnel and party members quickly ushered him back into the vehicle.

The Congress party has blamed the BJP, and has accused them of orchestrating the attacks, labelling it a desperate attempt to divert attention from administrative failures and corruption allegations against Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the BJP government at the Centre. The incident occurred during the yatra’s journey from Biswanth district to Nagaon.

In response, Rahul Gandhi has stated, “They think that Congress is scared of BJP and RSS, they’re dreaming. They can tear as many posters and placards as they want, we don’t care. We are not scared of anybody, we are neither scared of PM Narendra Modi nor Assam CM.”

Similarly, Rahul Gandhi and his convoy were reportedly forbidden and prevented from entering a temple in the same state. According to Hindustan Times, on January 22 Gandhi stated that he was prevented from entering a temple while attempting to visit Batadrava than in Assam which is considered the sacred birthplace of Saint Srimanta Sankardeva. The report has stated that this incident took place only a day after the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Kumar Biswa told Gandhi to visit the temple only after the Ram Temple inauguration in Uttar Pradesh, which is on January 22, so that no “unnecessary competition” would take place.

The Congress party is demanding a judicial inquiry and has highlighted the involvement of BJP members.

The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is charting a journey covering a substantial 833 kilometres, spanning across 17 districts in the north-eastern state. It is slated to travel across Assam until January 25, 2024.

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Even as the entire country unites to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of our Independence on the 15th of August, yet once again the BJP-led Government is hell-bent on weaponsing its agenda of hate, by marking the 14th of August as “Partition Horrors Remembrance Day”. Let not a day of national mourning and introspection, be abused and exploited to further the politics of hate and create the Partition of our hearts and minds. Indians across communities must resist this nefarious design.

Undoubtedly the tragedy of Partition shrouded the euphoria of our hard-earned freedom. The Partition was an unparalleled human tragedy that has inflicted deep scars on the very soul of our nation. 75 years later it still evokes passions and a deep sense of hurt in those who directly suffered due to the tragedy and collectively too. The Partition resulted out of the confluence of Hate and political ambitions, as well as the British Colonial policy of divide and rule. Yet it was the common Indian masses who had to suffer due to the greed of a few. One should never forget the savage conse quences of the tragedies of the past but the wounds of those tragedies must not be exploited to further fuel hate and division, but in fact must be treated with care, love and healing. Keeping the wounds festering, makes the body gangrenous and only leads to further withering away of the society, even as it serves the political greed of a few. They do not care about the human cost of perpetuating hate. The Commemoration of “Partition Remembrance Horrors Day” on August 14 is a very subtle disguised attempt to perpetuate hate, keep the wounds festering and earn political dividends. The insanity fuelled by hate resulted in the tragic vivisection of our motherland and along with the displacement of millions of people and massacre of a million, which also consumed the life of Mahatma Gandhi, our Bapu.

On this 14th August, let us all come together and join in prayers for peace, love, equality, justice and unity to prevail and defeat Hate and it’s hordes, to truly commemorate the tragedy of partition and pledge that all of us will work to ensure that India or humankind never have to live through such a tragedy ever again. Thus let us all unite to defeat hate and it’s divisive hordes and work to spread the message of love, humanity and the unity of our country.

We indeed welcome the fact that the SGPC, has called for a day of rememberance of the victims of the Partition, The victims of Partition were Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, all ordinary Indians. In keeping with the ancient spirit of India, a nation that was reborn on the 15th of August 1947 after the great sacrifices of our freedom fighters, let us all pray for salvation for their souls and pledge that we will not allow such a tragedy to occur ever again.

Dr. G G Parikh, Medha Patkar, Tushar Gandhi, Yogendra Yadav, Dr. Sunilam, Feroze Mithiborwala, Guddi S L, Arundhati Dhuru (NAPM, Uttar Pradesh), Sandeep Pandey (PeaceActivist), Meera Sangmitra (NAPM, Telengana), C. R. Neelkandan (NAPM, Kerala), Chinmay Mishra (Writer, Journalist, MadhyaPradesh), Alok Shukla (Chattisgarh Bachao Aandolan), Vishwas Utgi (Sanyukt Kamgar Kruti Samiti), Gautam Bandhopadhyay (Gandhi Vichar Foundation, Chattisgarh)

Courtesy: https://countercurrents.org/

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