Thursday 20 December 2012

Faizabad, 19th December 2012,
Forbes Inter College, Faizabad hosted a conference, 'Challenges to Common Heritage', 'Sanjhi Virasat ki Chunotiyan' on 19th December.
Subhasini Ali, former MP and member of CPM said, "The challenge India faces today is a disintegrating sovereignty. Indian states have pledged their policies to America. It's only through American handling of Indian policies that on the one hand FDI is being forced on India and on the other, Muslim youth are being arrested in the name of terrorism and left to rot in prisons all across India. Indians must unify to fight this issue and it's only this that will be a rightful tribute to our martyrs."
The event was also attended by Human Rights activist Gautam Navlakha who said that the freedom gained 60 years ago has not yet been realized and it's the Indian Army that has portrayed people from Kashmir and the north-east as India's enemies and killed hundreds of them. Muslims and tribals are being isolated and the country is being systematically divided by its democratically elected government.
Former Inspector General of Police SR Darapuri said that the anti-terrorism laws being passed by the parliament are draconian and only allow to help officials oppress Dalits, Muslims and tribals. 
Welfare Party Secretary General, Qasim Rasool Ilyas said that terror acts need to be inquired into to that Muslims, who are implicated in cases and released years later, faultless and having all charges against them taken back, their lives are ruined and it defames Muslims. 
All India People's Front leader Lal Bahadur Singh noted that Faizabad did not have a riot even after the Babri Masjid demolition but it had one under SP's communal governance.
Senior CPI-ML leader Mohammed Salim said that Indians must not rely on a political party to protect secularism in the country but they must take the matter into their own hands. He added that the people must use its values of common heritage to fight fascist regimes in the country. Rihai Manch convener Md. Shueb said that IB is trying to divide the country along communal lines. He added that Tariq and Khalid, accused by the ATS and other intelligence agencies in the Court premises bombings have been deemed blameless in the RD Nimesh Report. The SP government fails to make the report public and bring the culprits to book.
PUCL leader Mahtab Alam said that the governement's action in the name of Operation Green Hunt and terrorism only target Muslims and tribals and weaken the anti-imperialist movement. 
The meeting was chaired by Sitaram Verma and organised by DYFI.
Among the attendees were Satban Singh, Gufran, Hafiz Abdul Hafeez, Syed Ashraf Nizam, Jalal Siddiqi, Tariq Saeed Sudhir Singh, K P Singh, Dinesh Singh, Kamlesh Singh, RD Anand, Swapnil Srivastava, Manzar Mehdi, and Rajeev Yadav.
 

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