By hakim iron : Fröm Tamilnadu, India.
6 December: The Anti-Fascist Day
On 9 November, 2019 came the Supreme Court verdict on the pending case of Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi. We, the Indian citizens, have always regarded the judiciary in highest esteem and believed in the Supreme Court of India as the topmost institution to resolve conflicts and settle disputes of grave national concern.
The Indian Muslims response to the verdict had been like that of a silent listener without questioning the authority of the country’s highest court. However, what remains stuck in their mind is the issue of establishing of the crime committed on this day in 1992 by a group of religious fanatics and fascist forces that “illegally” brought down the existing 16th century mosque, built by a Mughal general, Mir Baqi, clearly defying the court orders, in the presence of police and paramilitary forces, which also raised serious questions of government and administrative failure.
Nothing can stop us to remember this day as the darkest day of Independent India that was bound by the ideals of democracy and supposed to be governed by the law of the land. The 6 December 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid and what led to the ensuing riots across the country is recorded as a day when the face of Indian democracy was smeared with blood and absolute lawlessness in the hands of home born fascists and neo-Nazis, because fascists or fascism as we know did not end with Mussolini and Hitler or with World War II, as they remain in the practices of right-wing forces bent to turn India into a Hindutva Rashtra on the ideals of fascism that has now taken a new form and new shape. Fascism as an idea has never died and it refuses to die even in the 21st century. Rather, it has strengthened under the sophisticated garb of intelligentsia and thrives in college and university campuses across the world.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) and its mother organization RSS with the overt and covert political support of the Bharatiya Janata Party have in fact destroyed all the values of Indian democracy that our country has so much and so long cherished to make it the world’s largest democracy.
The different facets of fascism have flourished since that day and are now home everywhere with strategies of brutality and mass appeal in the name of race, religion and ultra nationalism. It is because one blunder does not stop with just one occurrence. Rather, it emboldens the perpetrators and permeates the entire society in the ugliest and most nefarious way.
The guilty going unpunished has opened new chapters with worrying trends as the fascists make claim after claim on a number of mosques and religious places in an unprecedented manner. If not put an end to this ongoing madness and fanaticism through the same highest court of justice of the country, we are afraid this will destroy the reminiscences of democracy from our beloved country.
While marking 6 December as the “Anti-Fascist Day”, we reiterate our demand to bring back the perpetrators of 6 December, 1992 to the law books and uphold the true values of social and democratic justice.
We Indian citizens believe that the hands guilty of the historic blunder must be caught by the mighty hand of justice to restore people’s confidence and trust in the judiciary.
The Supreme Court has rightly upheld that demolition of Babri Masjid was a criminal act and all the responsible citizens have owed a duty to pledge on this day to uphold the Rule of Law and to commit ourselves to the implementation of the constitution of India
