Dear friends, I am amazed and shocked at this kind of irresponsible journalism. I sincerely hope that you would now circulate my response as widely as you have circulated this mischievous report. The simple fact is that we at Swaraj Abhiyan were among the first organisations to react to this incident and did much more than simply issue a routine statement of condemnation. The sequence is events is as follows:
25th: the incident happened in the evening; I was in Ahmedabad where the police had locked our event venue. In the midst of all that no one informed me about it 26th morning: I was still in Ahmedabad when Prashant ji sent me an SMS about this incident and we discussed what should be done. I immediately requested two of our Swaraj Abhiyan colleagues Mr Rakesh Jain and Mr Ramzan Chowdhary (member of our National Working Committee) to rush to the spot and ascertain the facts of the situation. They reached around noon and were there till late evening. Ramzan bhai was with the victims in the thana and Rakesh bhai visited the burnt houses in the village. They gave the factual situation and said that by now the situation was under control; the victims were under police protection. We had request our teams nearby to arrange for food for the victims, but Ramzan bhai reported that it had been arranged locally. They said the media was not reporting this incident in a big way. Wider publicity had the risk of provoking a chain reaction that could lead to further attacks on the minorities. So, Prashant ji and I decided not to go public at that time. 27th: we had a day long meeting on our Kisan abhiyan in NOIDA. Ramzan bhai came for it and reported that the situation was returning to normal. We discussed about setting up our first Aman Committee, something we want to do all over the country, in this village. In the evening I got calls from our volunteers saying that another set of families have been attacked. I requested Ramzan bhai to check this fact. He verified that it was indeed true and I immediately spoke to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Subhash Yadav, to register my concern and demand swift action. 28th: By now the incident was being reported in the media. Mohd Naushad Khan of Radiance Viewsweekly asked me for my reaction and this is what I wrote back at 1130 in the morning: "... incidents of this kind are happening all over and often go unreported or unnoticed. This is the fourth of fifth incident of this kind in Haryana since Modi government came to power, the most serious one being in Tauru last year. *Modi government claims that there have been no big communal riots since it took over. What has happened is not that communalism has abated, but that its model has shifted. Crowd-sourcing of majority communalism is the new model. *Secular politics has to change its strategy to combat this new model of communal violence." *Is this what you call keeping mum? Why did this news report not even ask me for a reaction before running a story on me? Why does this report not mention my role in the communal violence at Tauru last year? Why does this report not talk about the fact that I travelled there during the curfew and was pushed and abused by RSS workers? Why does this report not talk about what I said on minorities and Mr Modi in Ahmedabad on the 25th itself? * Is this journalism? I leave it for you to judge. Yours Yogendra Yogendra Yadav, *XB-4 Sahvikas Society, 68 Indra Prastha Extension, * *Delhi 110092 * *(Direction: Near Madhu Vihar Market, Patparganj)Office Phone: +91 9868888986* On 29 May 2015 at 19:46, Ghulam Muhammed <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/what-keeps-yogendra-yadav-mum-on-haryana-riot > > > > What keeps Yogendra Yadav mum on Haryana riot? > 29 May 2015 05:05 PM, IST > > > [image: What keeps Yogendra Yadav mum on Haryana riot?] > Yogendra Yadav addressing Swaraj Abhiyan members in Ahmedabad on 26 May > 2015 (Photo credit - Swaraj Abhiyan) > * <http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/>* > By IndiaTomorrow.net, > > New Delhi, 29 May 2015: Four days have passed since the rioting and arson > in Atali village of Faridabad district in Haryana left over 200 Muslims > homeless and over a dozen of them wounded, but ‘son of the soil’ Yogendra > Yadav of Swaraj Abhiyan, a faction of Aam Aadmi Party, has not yet uttered > a word on the violence in his home state. Crudely speaking, he could be > making a ‘fine balance’ not to antagonize his potential voters from the > majority community in Delhi’s neighbouring state which is set to be the > venue for his electoral debut after leaving AAP. > > > The incident took place in Atali village on 25th May evening but Yadav > was so busy in Gujarat event of his Swaraj Abhiyan that day that he could > not say a word on the riot. But on 26th May also, his all-time active > twitter and facebook pages remained silent on the riot but active on the > Gujarat event. Similar were 27 and 28 May. It was only today i.e. 29th May > when Yadav has 'woken up' – and that too just to retweet Swaraj Abhiyan’s > post saying: “Swaraj Abhiyan has been trying to douse the fire in village > Atali of Faridabad distt right from the day it erupted.” The text is > followed by a link which takes one to Yadav’s facebook page where yesterday > he had actually shared a Haryana lawyer Ramzan Chaudhary’s post on the > Atali violence. It is clear: he or his group did not want to take any stand > on this issue. > > > Was he really so busy that he could not take out a couple of minutes to > clearly and directly denounce the communal violence in Haryana? Maybe. Or > maybe he is behaving like a 'smart politician' who does not antagonize any. > > > > *Hasnu Khan at hospital in Faridabad* > > > > *Atali Violence* > > > Till 5 PM on 25th May, almost everything was normal in this village of a > mixed population of Hindus and Muslims. But what happened in next two hours > that day has changed the look of the village for long and divided the > hearts perhaps for years and decades to come. The loot, arson and rioting > targeting Muslims in the Atali village once again signifies that the menace > of riot continues thriving in India irrespective of which political party > rules the country or states. > > > > > > *Muslim women from Atali village taking shelter at Ballabgarh police > station* > > > > Dozens of homes, vehicles and shops of Muslims were ransacked and put on > fire by a mob of the Hindu majority community as they were against the > reconstruction of an old mosque whose title suit was contested in the > court. Hundreds of members of the minority community had to flee their > homes to save their lives while dozens of them were wounded as the rioters > chased and attacked them with crude sharp weapons. Even four days after the > rioting, over 200 people are still sheltered in the premises of Ballabgarh > city police station. > > > > *one of several houses looted, ransacked and set on fire in Atali village* > > > > > > Keywords : *Yogendra Yadav , * > <http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/what-keeps-yogendra-yadav-mum-on-haryana-riot> > * Haryana riot , * > <http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/what-keeps-yogendra-yadav-mum-on-haryana-riot> > * AAP , * > <http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/what-keeps-yogendra-yadav-mum-on-haryana-riot> > * Swaraj Abhiyan* > <http://www.indiatomorrow.net/eng/what-keeps-yogendra-yadav-mum-on-haryana-riot> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. 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