*Pl send your endorsements to * jawednaqvi <[email protected]> Harsh Kapoor <[email protected]>, Anil Chaudhury <[email protected]>
Friends/comrades Enclosed is an URGENT appeal drafted by Professor Harbans Mukhia, which requests opposition parties to show greater unity and and spirit of accommodation with each other in what could be our last chance to contain and defeat an extremely virulent form of fascism in India. Kindly read the text and circulate it as widely as you can to as many friends and comrades as you may know. After collecting their names and emails, do send them back to me with copy to Harsh Kapoor and Anil Chaudhury (cced here). We propose to meet preferably on Monday or Tuesday, should there be any delay in collecting the list of supporters, to press it into the hands of all leaders of the opposition parties that acknowledge the need to fight the Hindutva menace. We would be circulating the appeal with all the names to each one of you after weeding out any duplications.. Warm regards and all bests Jawed Naqvi *An Appeal to the Opposition Parties* *From Citizens * The 2019 elections are going to decide the destiny of India like never before. A Govt elected by 31 per cent of those who cast their votes in 2014 is determined to change the very nature of India against the will of the 69 per cent who voted for the Opposition parties: India that had withstood even the trauma of Partition and retained its pluralist character which is now under serious threat by the present Govt and its ideological parent, the RSS. The real fight is for saving the very soul of our great nation with such a glorious, ancient history and civilization from the devastating onslaught unleashed by the current regime. It is thus a decisive time for the Opposition parties and leaders to rise to the enormity of their responsibility and suspend their individual and party’s egos for small gains here and there. The stakes are much higher now. It is time for showing magnanimity in putting up a single front to defeat the pseudo-nationalist, power hungry regime; remember 69 per cent of voters in 2014 voted for you, but you frittered it all away at the altar of factional and individual egos. Surely, if it happens again, there would be nothing left to fight for. There have of course been recent, laudable examples of sacrifice of such egos and inflicting crushing defeat on the ruling party. It is our fervent appeal to follow these examples to save India. We suggest that in opposition to the ruling party’s agenda of “Divide and Rule”, let the Opposition parties set an alternate agenda with the focus on the shared cultural inheritance and common destiny. It is also important to bring issues of steady economic decline over the past five years on all fronts—farmers, jobs, small traders -- on one handand the growth of crony capitalism on the other. Corruption has also entered centre stage over these years. And of course the question of the sanctity and autonomy of institutions and indeed of the Constitution itself are crucial for this agenda. We hope that our appeal will be given serious consideration when strategies for the elections are drawn up. Our hope rests with you. -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
