In protest against CAA and NRC

A complete no to NRC and CAA. No to all possible divisive- destructive-demolishing governmental tactics. Above all, a definite ‘no’ to the fascist rulers of the day who are hell-bent on destroying my country, my people, my very existence.

I would further my stand by stating that these fascist rulers are worse than those British rulers of the Raj era, for at least that lot did not fake with labels of pseudo nationalism. Yes, they did indulge in massacres and killings but so is this government. They are thrashing our students, our children, our future.

And they are doing so with all possible brutality, unleashing their police force on our unarmed young!

I have before me shots of police brutality on the campus of the Jamia Millia Islamia and also on the Aligarh Muslim University campus and every single shot leaves one shaken as the cops are turning out to be ruthless killers! Quite obviously, they would be doing so under orders and directions from the men manning the Union Home Ministry! Tell me, is the police force there to kill the young… any student who dares to openly resist, to speak out, to cry out? A student who dares to speak out should be respected and not shot at or flung into police thanas.

Today, as an Indian Muslim, I feel more than threatened, apprehensive than ever before. My identity, my survival and my existence are at stake. The Right-Wing lot carries a certain set Hindutva Agenda which they are hell-bent on implementing. They wouldn’t give a damn if hundreds and thousands are killed or blinded or disabled or raped. Their only agenda is to force Hindutva on the hapless citizens of my country.

Mind you, today their targets are the students and minorities and ethnic groups but tomorrow they will target even those from the other communities and groups. They will use any excuse or opportunity to hound and much more. The killer rulers don’t stop at one community. And these killers have blood on their hands – they have killed hundreds of innocent citizens in the various locales of the country, right from Gujarat to Kashmir to Assam to New Delhi. Today I’m targeted, tomorrow it will be you. Yes, there is a marked pattern to it. Fascists don’t stop at one community or section. They carry on with the destruction of human beings, structures, of age-old norms, civilizations and culture.

Which Indian would be naïve enough to believe a word of what Home Minister Amit Shah insists on harping- that he is taking all this trouble of implementing the NRC and CAA in the country so that he can bring back those Indian origin men and women who are facing persecution in Pakistan and Bangladesh and Afghanistan!

The anarchy and distress spreading out are ample signals that the people of this country are well aware of the agenda of these fascist rulers.

The NRC will prove to be an extremely destructive exercise which will witness bloodshed and rapes. Thousands of genuine citizens of this country will be thrown into detention centres to languish there till death. This government overnight converted the Kashmir Valley into an open prison. Setting up hundreds of detention centres/camps will not be a difficult task for them. After all, they have the entire government machinery and law and order institutions to kill and hound and imprison those who dare to resist. Who can withstand police torture and brutalities!

In fact, academic Dr Javed Jamil focuses on another apt argument –“If despite persecution, Muslims can remain loyal to their homeland, why Pakistani and Bangladeshi Hindus cannot to their homelands?... There is a long history of persecution of Muslims in India with thousands of riots …in recent past, they have faced mob lynching in the name of cows. Their representation in all national institutions has been less than their percentage in population There are many other discriminatory laws against Muslims and their religion in their country. Still, Muslims who decided to stay in India at the time of Partition have remained loyal to their homeland…”

Tell me, why should the likes of Amit Shahs take the trouble of carting refugees here, when the genuine citizens of my country are getting killed and hounded and uprooted, under any possible alibi? Also, who should decide who is a genuine citizen and who, in words of the Right-Wing rulers, is an intruder ‘ghuspaithiya’?

Today, I can see my country getting destroyed not by the so-called enemy countries but the Hindutva rulers of the day. They are using every possible divisive tactic to tear us into bits and pieces, into shreds. Killing us, blinding our children, breaking their bones, destroying the education structure…destroying our very future.

If these tactics carry on it will strip us of our very existence, our ancestral heritage, our very distinct identities and our harmonious homeland.

Let them not fling us into open prisons and camps. And then sit back and lie to the world at large that all is normal...all is going good!