*Newsletter of All India Secular Forum*
*Volume. 12 No.4 April 2017*
*C O N T E N T S*
* Editorial*
*1. CSSS** News*
*-**Voters Awareess Campaign for Peace, Harmony and *
* Their Rights*
* - Event for Martyrs Day of Saheed-E-Azam Bhagat *
* Singh *
*2. Article*
- *The fear of Hindu Rashtra: Should Muslims keep *
* away from electorial politics? By Ajaz Ashraf*
*3. Harmony*
- *Holi and Muslims of the Indian subcontinent*
* - Hindu and Muslim join forces to save a mosque – A *
* lesson in brotherhood from Gujarat*
* - Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy*
*4. Book Talk*
* - **Pale Shadow of Harmony will remain*
*5. Interview*
* - **Interview with Teesta Setalvad *
* - Interview with Anand Patwardhan*
* 6. Resources*
*- **Our shared cultural heritage from ANHAD – Video *
* Series*
* - Book on Kandhamal*
* - Book on Fascism in India by Ram Puniyani*
* - Video Clip – Indian History: Facts verses myths*
* - 5 Myths behind India’as communal violence *
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*Ph. 022-26149668, 022-26135098*
*E-mail: [email protected] <[email protected]>*
*Editor*: Ram Puniyani, [email protected], www.pluralindia.com
*Advisory Board*: L.S. Hardenia, Irfan Engineer, Dhirendra Panda, Mohammad
Arif.
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*From the Editor’s Desk*
The massive victory of BJP in UP Assembly Elections and appointment of
Adityanath Yogi as the Chief Minister of UP has come as a big jolt to the
plural inclusive values for which India stands. BJP achieved this victory
by ‘uniting Hindu votes and dividing Muslim Votes’. The communal
polarization was used extensively at grass roots. The electoral engineering
and election management by BJP-RSS was close to perfect. The non communal
parties have failed to learn the lesson from last General elections and the
Bihar Model of alliance.
Right from the word go; Yogi the new Chief Minister ordered the closure of
‘illegal’ meat shops. In the atmosphere charged up due to the ‘RSS-BJP
created Hindutva hysteria’, most of the mutton-beef shops were closed down
attacked and the traders had to go on the strike. The attempt was to
financially break the back of Muslim community. As one knows; so many shops
of vegetables, other street shops have no valid license. In the present
scenario the supporters of RSS-BJP politics have felt emboldened and that’s
what has led to the murder of Pehlu Khan, a milk trader who was
transporting cows with all legal papers. Tragically the concerned Rajasthan
minister justified the acts of cow vigilantes in checking the cattle
transport, while BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi denied that any such event has
happened. The hypocrisy of BJP is obvious as in Kerala its MP is promising
good Beef, in Goa the ruling BJP Government dare not talk against beef and
in North Eastern states there was a beef party organized by BJP after
victory in elections there. It is purely a political issue which BJP is
using to create a vote bank.
We are carrying two major interviews in this issue, one by Teesta Setalvad
and another by Anand Patwardhan, both a very significant in the present
worsening political scenario.
Ram Puniyani
*(Editor)*
Link
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